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Possible Aurora adware infestation now takes 30 minutes to boot
i've found some really good info. it's nice to have some time to dig a little deeper and have some fun researching a problem. unfortunately, my time has run out. problem remains unsolved for now. below are mostly just random notes, but could be handy:
system started out with simple adware infestation. spybot cleaned nearly all, but a few random renaming and reappearing files were left (they are listed further below). i believe all the filth is now gone, but the boot process is taking 20 to 30 minutes to complete. the system seems fine until about 5 to 10 seconds after the desktop shows. at this point, the taskbar freezes. it appears the service database is locked. some programs work fine, but service related or both explorer and iexplore are unavailable. after the strange timeout, everything seems fine.
Windows XP services in detail with recommendations
BootVis.exe clean prefetch folder - empty tweapxp (tweakxp) StartEd (Win98 tool) Boot defrag - or- Perfect Disk Blaster virus Start Up Mechanic - free - great Start-up Cop Code Stuff Starter
Stop: 0x8E
Symevent.sys
XoftSpy
ivhykbxx.exe
gterzp.exe
awuhnrx.exe
zgsyrw.exe
xggafdl.exe
zywskb.exe
vmghojk.exe
njmavh
ewphfxb.exe
zaouwm
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supposed fix -
some really good info -
manual removal instructions
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Monday, June 27, 2005
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Someone landed here after searching for "TweakXP" so I'm adding the link to download "TweakUI" for all Windows versions ..
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