From: "ruez46" <ruez46@midnight.com>

| Hello folks!

| Don't want to waste to much of your time, this fourm was my last hope before
| the obvious rebuild of my Xp machine, I have narrowed this down to the
| SmitFraud due to the symptoms I am seeing, after spending nearly the better
| part of a day, I thought maybe someone can offer some suggestions please.

| The thing that is making it so hard to clean is that I am not able to run
| any applications on XP cept for IE, any other application I try and run I
| get the classic 'open with' windows box asking to choose a program to open
| the file, even worse when I try to access system functions(ie. display
| properties) I get another 'control panel' error
| 'c:\windows\system32\rundll32.exe' Aplication not found.

| Although Rundll32.exe is in the proper directory, however the malware is not
| allowing access to the rundll32 function, in turn causing my other programs
| to give me the 'open with' dialog box.

| Hence I am not able to run Hijack THis at the moment to view the log, if I
| can get past this Rundll32.exe issue then I am on my way to fixing the
| remainder, only thing is I am stumped on this one part, so you can imagine
| that any suggestions are more than welcome and very appreciated.

| Cheers!




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