ruez46 wrote:
> 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!

have you tried the removal tool from S!R! ?? also some other tools
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/13935 a known good legit site
works for me.
Clark...
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