You've got a lot going on here. My suggestion? Backup your important data, nuke and repave.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Richard Daawes <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the input Ken, there are four copies of svchost.exe on my PC, > identical in size but different time stamps, see list derived from attrib > and dir in CLI. I used the one in the dllcache folder to replace the > system32 copy. BTW tried the others and same result, also system restore > fails because that doesn't replace svchost.exe > > > C:\>attrib svchost.exe /s > C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\svchost.exe > C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\svchost.exe > A C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\svchost.exe > A C:\WINDOWS\system32\SVCHOST.EXE > > C:\>dir svchost.exe /s > Volume in drive C is PC_No_1. > Volume Serial Number is 6458-9F33 > > Directory of C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ > > 04/08/2004 01:56 14,336 svchost.exe > 1 File(s) 14,336 bytes > > Directory of C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 > > 14/04/2008 01:12 14,336 svchost.exe > 1 File(s) 14,336 bytes > > Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32 > > 16/07/2010 18:34 14,336 SVCHOST.EXE > 1 File(s) 14,336 bytes > > Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache > > 19/03/2009 20:07 14,336 svchost.exe > 1 File(s) 14,336 bytes > > Total Files Listed: > 4 File(s) 57,344 bytes > 0 Dir(s) 216,816,939,008 bytes free > > > > This is going off on a big tangent and members please accept my apologies > but I have to respond to your "huh!", plenty of MSDOS apps were designed > allowing user info to be embeded in executables or libraries; DBase 2 and 3, > Paradox and Flexiguard (boot controlling app) immediately come to mind. > Serial numbers, owner ID, custom logos etc could be incorporated. The > original file would stay the same size but its time stamp changed. A > suitable block of blanks is replaced with meaningful data. As an example at > the uni I worked for Norton 2 replaced core commands in COMMAND.COM like > copy, del, md or rd with our secret equivalents to thwart mischievous > students and irresponsible staff; as long as replacement commands were the > same length as originals, MSDOS didn't wimp about it. > > Regarding Firefox not playing vids, Youtube has a white screen for movie to > play and no prompts, Flixy has a black screen for movie to play and states I > need to upgrade flash plugins etc - which of course makes no discernable > change. > > Richard > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
