Hi, I have come over from one of the other forums.

Running xp, my son downloaded a virus/hijacker thing and it messed up the boot process of the pc. 

Initially, on attempting to boot up, just after the windows login screen, a blue screen error would appear saying:-

 

'Fatal error in IE has occured at 0028:Coo11E36 in VXD VMM901) + 00010E36.
Error was caused by Trojan-spy. HTML. Smitfraud.c
*System cannot function in normal mode. Please check you security settings.
*Scan your PC with any available antivirus/spyware remover program to fix problem.'

 

and a window would appear over it with

 

Explorer.exe. application error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005).
Click on OK to terminate the application.

.Following advice, I have deleted some reg entries, and now the wording on the blue screen is not there, ie a blank blue screen. However, I am still getting the window error message about the explorer.exe problem.

 

Through MS antispyware, i have detected a poss. browser hijack and that has been deleted, but I do not seem to be able to run McAfee, or if i try either iexplore.exe or explorer.exe through task master, the error message pops up again. I have tried opening all of these in both normal and safe mode.

 

However, if i get bored, I can open solitaire, marvellous!

 

I attatch the result of the hijack this scan in the hope you can help me:

a) make sense of this mess, and

b) get my desktop back

 

Many thanks, Ian