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I wrote earlier about problems with parite virus. Every antivirus software I have run (about 10)cannot seem to shift it. I have took all your advice and am greatful but I am still stuck. I have now found that I cannot run most programs I get the message"windows cannot access the specified device, path or file you may not have the appropiate permission......."

I gatthered from an eithlier message that it can be got rid of easily thruogh regedit but I nowI cannot run regedit because I get the same message.

I tried Hijack this but this will also not run as I get the same message.

This is getting prity desperate.....I wanted to reformatt the whole drive and reinstall windows but because I am running a Tablet I would have to buy an external cd drive....aparrantley it will only boot from toshibas own drive and they cost over £200 I would rather thow the machine in the bin.

Anyone please?

Lorna

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The offer that I made in a PM still stands. If Hijack this cannot be downloaded, I have run a little experiment, and it can be run from Outlook Express. I can send the file as an attachment, and double clicking the attachment will run the program.

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Thanks but I cannot see how this will work? I cannot run any program now apart from internet explorer. everything I try to run comes up with the message I mentioned above. I understand hijack this looks at the registory but I cannot get into the registory. If I could run regedit then I would be able to change the line with parite on it but I cant. Damm this virus.......Maybe there are other things going on here?

I have been able to download and run antivirus programs but they, after a while, stop running.

I managed to intall another copy of windows proffessional over the top of windows prof tablet edition by using a CD rom on another PC over the network, this was risky because I had to turn Zonelabs off to access the drive which left my other pC's exposed. However, this seems to have made things worse?

Thanks for trying...I fear its may be the skip for this lovely tablet.

Lorna

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Yeah!

Everything works in safe mode so I can run hijack this

here is my log I have not a clue what to do with it?

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1

Scan saved at 12:11:26, on 10/06/2005

Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)

MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000)

Running processes:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WISPTIS.EXE

C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE

C:\PROGRA~1\WinZip\winzip32.exe

C:\unzipped\spykiller\HijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.google.co.uk/

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by BTopenworld

F2 - REG:system.ini: UserInit=C:\WINDOWS\System32\Userinit.exe

O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.ocx

O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll

O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll

O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TabletTip] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\tabtip.exe" /resume

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TosHKCW.exe] TosHKCW.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_CC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe /STARTUP

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_EMC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgemc.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [synchronization Manager] %SystemRoot%\system32\mobsync.exe /logon

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Trirot] Trirot.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DVDUpgrade] DVDUpgrd.exe /async

O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [Microsoft Update Machine] wuawx.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [Microsoft Update] navmgrd.exe

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\System32\ctfmon.exe

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Zinio DLM] C:\Program Files\Zinio\ZDLM.exe /hide

O4 - Global Startup: Microsoft Office.lnk = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OSA9.EXE

O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmsearch.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: &Translate English Word - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmwordtrans.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: Backward Links - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmbacklinks.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: Cached Snapshot of Page - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmcache.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: Similar Pages - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmsimilar.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate Page into English - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmtrans.html

O9 - Extra button: Related - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm

O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Show &Related Links - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm

O9 - Extra button: Real.com - {CD67F990-D8E9-11d2-98FE-00C0F0318AFE} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\Shdocvw.dll

O12 - Plugin for .spop: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins\NPDocBox.dll

O16 - DPF: {04E214E5-63AF-4236-83C6-A7ADCBF9BD02} (HouseCall Control) - http://housecall60.trendmicro.com/housecall/xscan60.cab

O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5co...b?1118226257946

O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2004061...all/xscan53.cab

O16 - DPF: {A3009861-330C-4E10-822B-39D16EC8829D} (CRAVOnline Object) - http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ravonline.cab

O20 - Winlogon Notify: loginkey - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\LoginKey.dll

O20 - Winlogon Notify: TabBtnWL - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TabBtnWL.dll

O20 - Winlogon Notify: tpgwlnotify - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\tpgwlnot.dll

O23 - Service: AVG7 Alert Manager Server (Avg7Alrt) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe

O23 - Service: AVG7 Update Service (Avg7UpdSvc) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgupsvc.exe

O23 - Service: iPod Service (iPodService) - Apple Computer, Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe

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The offer that I made in a PM still stands.  If Hijack this cannot be downloaded, I have run a little experiment, and it can be run from Outlook Express.  I can send the file as an attachment, and double clicking the attachment will run the program.

Good idea, but HijackThis should not be run from a temporary folder. This would nullify any backups it makes, potentially causing more problems than it would solve.

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I created a file on drive C and called it Hijack this. I ran the program from the attachment, ignoring the first message about creating a folder. I then chose to save the scan into the new permanent folder. This worked OK.

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I created a file on drive C and called it Hijack this.  I ran the program from the attachment, ignoring the first message about creating a folder.  I then chose to save the scan into the new permanent folder.  This worked OK.

HijackThis will place the backups in a folder named "Backup" where the HijackThis.exe is run from. If you run it from location (instead of save) it runs in a temporary folder. The backups will be placed in this temporary folder even though the log is saved elsewhere.

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I created a file on drive C and called it Hijack this.  I ran the program from the attachment, ignoring the first message about creating a folder.  I then chose to save the scan into the new permanent folder.  This worked OK.

HijackThis will place the backups in a folder named "Backup" where the HijackThis.exe is run from. If you run it from location (instead of save) it runs in a temporary folder. The backups will be placed in this temporary folder even though the log is saved elsewhere.

OH! that has shut me up then.

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