Task Manager Opens Briefly then closes automatically!!

Lots of the regular posting anti-malware experts on this board have moved to pastures new for various reasons. You may find it better to find another support site to assist you.

Please go to this link and choose one of the websites on the left of the page.
Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals
As you can see they all work together in cleaning malware (Virus, Spyware and adware).

To help you choose from that list

Net-Intergration is the support site of Spybot S&D.
Lavasoft Support is the support site of Ad-aware.
TomCoyotes contains the anti-malware school - Classroom.
SpyWareInfo contains the anti-malware school - BootCamp.
Wilders Security has since stopped hijackthis log support due to the lack of experianced helpers.
Others that I would recommend Zerosrealm, Subratam.org, SpyWare BeWare and ComputerCops, but generally all those on that list will have experts to help you.
Texruss and myself are Teachers at The TomCoyote Forum.

There are still some knowledgable people left posting here at Dell, so you may still get help from them.

I wish you all the best at getting your computer clean.

One trick:  go into your \windows\system32 folder, and copy (not shortcut) the taskman.exe file onto your desktop.  Run it from there - usually, this defeats the auto-close that so many common viruses/worms/trojans hide behind.  Same goes for regedit, regedt32, etc.

Once you've done that, open the task manager and kill anything that looks suspicious.

Scan your system from safe mode, before the trojan/virus/worm starts up and hides from your antivirus software.

 

Good point ejn63...thanks for sharing.

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@ejn63 wrote:
Once you've done that, open the task manager and kill anything that looks suspicious.

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Please, make sure you perform a Google.com search on the file you are about to kill. This will defeat the worry of accidentally killing a system file, resulting in an emergency reboot.

Jason

Message Edited by DemoniK on 08-07-2004 09:45 PM