At 03:01 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
This morning SpySweeper informed me that it had quarantined a
JSRedir-O virus, but apparently not after it had done some
damage. The only thing I noticed right away is that SpySweeper no
longer would run. After talking to their very helpful tech support,
got the links to cleanup and reinstall, now it seems fine. I am
going to run a full scan as soon as I log off here.
But one other thing has happened -- I have no DOS command
box! Typing CMD in the run box makes my desktop icons flash off
for a few seconds, then flash back on with no DOS box. Navigating
to windows / system32 / cmd.exe also does the same thing. Anyone
have a clue on how to "fix" it? Or am I resigned to never going to
a DOS box again?
Hello Karen,
The same problem occurred to me recently. You may have also lost
access to the registry editor. On my end, I also lost access to MS
updates and was automatically redirected from certain Web pages. Some
repair utility Web sites will also be blocked from displaying.
I could not find that any named virus or Trojan claimed
responsibility for the lose of these several computer resources, nor
did several anti-virus, spyware, malware, etc. utilities find or fix
this nasty issue; except one called ComboFix. You may be forced to go
to another computer to even download it. It resolved all of the above
issues on my PC.
John
