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Computer fucked up, AGAIN.

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Hi.

My computer is fucked up again. The Internet is TERRIBLY slow and icky, half of my programs won't work (MSN, AVG, etc) and half of my icons have gone to shit as can be seen in the pic' below:

messed-up-1.gif

I can't open regedit as something is causing it to close almost instantly, so there is no way for me to mess in there.

When opening up the task manager, one of the processes is called "csrss.exe" and cannot be ended (I remember AVG picking it up as a virus not long ago) and can't Google for any other info. See pic' below:

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Need help. Any appreciated. Thanks.

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    try running a panda active scan.

    http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

    (you'll have to open it in internet explorer though)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/csrss/

    you are trying to kill a critical windows process you numpty
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    lol. Thanks. But AVG definately picked up a file called csrss.exe as a virus. And still, all my other problems remain.

    Panda scan in progress...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    try it in safe mode????
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What would I get out of that?

    Panda scan doesn't work. Piece of shit. ;(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Capacity
    What would I get out of that?

    Panda scan doesn't work. Piece of shit. ;(

    erm if its a virus it may not start up then and thus you can remove it
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by wheresmyplacebo
    erm if its a virus it may not start up then and thus you can remove it

    Ok I'll give it a go. Thanks.

    I stand corrected. The Panda scan thing has started to work. Results soon...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    About 24 found, some right nasty bastards. All gone now.

    How do I stop them coming back though ffs? I never used to have this problem. My ports aren't open, ZoneAlarm pisses me off and Sygate doesn't work right on my comp. Need help. ;(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If in doubt...

    format c: /y

    ;<
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Originally posted by Capacity
    How do I stop them coming back though ffs?
    Try going to symantec.com and searching for the virus. It might tell you the name of an update to download from Microsoft. I keep doing that ever since I got XP (did I mention that I had 98 for 4 years, my habits didn't change, and I only ever found ONE virus?).
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Felix Da Housecat

    format c: /y

    ;<

    What does the /y bit do then? Iv always used /s. Or am i just being really late on a joke?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    csrss.exe is not a virus. Delete it and your system will die. The Client Server Runtime Subsystem process, also known as the Win32 subsystem, generates a worker thread for client requests.

    Some baddies will copy it's self to that file making it hard to remove.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    csrss.exe is not a virus.

    There was a virus called crsss.exe though. Telewest told me about it a bit ago. Putting SP2 on XP is supposed to close the gap.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thanks Kermit, I'll look into that.

    Two more things which I'm guessing aren't good that I wondered if anyone has a clue to?...

    messed-up-3.gif

    This appeared for the 1st time on re-boot a few minutes ago.

    messed-up-4.gif

    This is the result of trying to click 'Device Manager', I'm guessing that's a bad thing.

    Any help at all = love from me to you. ;<

    Also, am I putting myself at risk to nubs by posting images like these on here?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The first seems to be a net send message.

    Start Menu -> Run

    type services.msc

    Hit enter

    Navigate to the Messenger service (This is in no way related to MSN or Windows Messenger) and stop it, right click on it, select properties and from the drop down box labeled 'startup type' select disable.

    As for the second problem, it seems something has deleted the device manager part of the management console :/ possible windows repair might fix this.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

    Start Menu -> Run

    type services.msc

    Hit enter

    =

    messed-up-5.gif

    I really cry. ;(
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    JsTJsT Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
    Backup your drivers, remove any mp3s and games you want then wipe the system. Its fucked beyond repair!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Has gone a bit FUBAR hasnt it?

    I think JST might have the right idea.....
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ok, thanks for the help.
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