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AVG, firewall, regedit, and msconfig quit after a few seconds

Anyone know what the latest virus is that shuts down Avg, sygate firewall, regedit, and msconfig after a few seconds? I can scan for viruses using Panda online, but can't get avg et al to hang around for more than a few seconds. Doesn't appear to be any viral processes going on in task manager to shut down either. This is on xp home

jvuz

Have you already tried to check with Stinger:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

akboss

download and try running this.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

also download these.

Spyware/Adware removal tools
SpyBot
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22262,00.asp

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/#free

Run these before running HijackThis.

HijackThis
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

when you run HijackThis make sure you place it in its own folder. Run it and make a copy of the log. Paste it here and I or someone else will look at it and see if there is something else that needs to be done.

Try these suggestions first. If there is more to do we can work on it at that time.

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Got rid of all the viruses, but when i boot up, as windows starts, I get an error message saying hostsrv.exe could not be found. No entries in msconfig and no entries in the run key in any of the registry keys either. Hostsrv.exe is not running in task manager either. It was one of the processes that was running when the viruses were running wild. How to get rid of?

acmp

I did a Google for hostsrv.exe and only got 1 hit!
http://handsoff.infomedia.it/cgi-bin/lwgate/VB-IT/archives/vb-it.log.0204/Author/article-841.html

It relates to Win95, is that your OS?

I'd try a safemode boot and see if the problem persists. can you feed back what happens and also your Win Ver.

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