C Drive Missing & Task Manager disabled

Prev, on Saturday September 6, 2008 05:11:35 AM

Hello,

Alot of problems over the last few weeks.

System I am using in an XP.

FIRST Problem started when I upgraded AVG to version 8.0. After that a whole bunch of sites where login is required eg Facebook, Hotmail, Forums and even Google (which doesnt work after I hit search!). Apparently the 'solution' could be found by closing explorer.exe and for a while that has worked up till NOW.

Whilst trying to update the codecs for Real player(from the Real player link), I had a message come up stating

"Spyware Alert"

"Worm.win32.netbooster detected on your machine."

Oh and IF i clicked yes, I get fowarded to a link
http://www.safewebnavigate2008.com/index.php?sid=0&said=0&aid=0&pn=&pid=0

At the bottom right where the time used to be, there is a message "virus alert" next to it.

Since that, my C drive has disappeared, but I discovered that starting it in safe mode under administrator has located it. When in normal mode, there is no C drive at all.

I am at a loss, any any help is greatly appreciated.

Truly very frustrating, may have to format my hard drive but not to sure how plus my original copy of XP is stored on my secondary hard drive (f) and I am unsure how to access it.

A very frustrated Prev.

Configuration: Windows XP
Firefox 2.0.0.16
C drive (primary)
F Drive

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JCT, on Saturday September 6, 2008 05:58:42 AM

Seems like you have been infected with a fun list of trojans and malware. I just fixed 3 machines last week. To access you drives, explore the recycle bin and then in the address bar type C:\ and hit enter, that will allow you to view your files. Search for SDFix using any of your favorite search engines. Exctract it to C:\SDFix. READ all the information and help files. Boot into SAFE MODE, if you can't you can run the SDfix from regular mode and I think it gives you the option to re-enable booting into SAFE MODE. Follow all directions, let it run, it may seem like it is frozen for a few minutes, but it is doing much stuff. After that is done, search for KillBox, Rogue Remover, SuperAntiSpyware FREE, run those and that should solve your problems... in any case, I would BACKUP ALL FILES that are IMPORTANT to you BEFORE attempting to fix this nasty mess you have.

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LSBrew, on Sunday November 2, 2008 03:48:53 PM

SDFix is the trick. Virus Alert! and all the issues like 24 hr clock, c drive missing, task manager missing, regedit unavialable., all FIXED! Thank you for the outstanding advise.

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JS Design, on Tuesday December 2, 2008 10:24:19 PM

Hi,

OK so I switched to safe mode and ran SDfix and it came up with no found entries. Also when I run my computer in SafeMode, I can see the buttons Im missing like my C:drive (although when you click it, it just takes you to a search window and not my actual C: drive, but I can see my "All Programs" and "Log off" button. I could see that even before I can SDfix.

When I returned to normal mode after restarting my computer, Im still missing my "All Programs" button, my yellow "log off" button, and I still can see no C: drive. I also seem to have lost my search function in explorer. When it asks me for a location it shows the drive but with no C in it, just "()"

This is so frustrating. I can access my c: drive by typing it in the explorer window bar but thats it. I also can't seem to even run my CD/DVD drive. That doesn't show up either. WTF?

I hope there is someone out there that can help me.

Thank you

JS

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LOndon.Guy, on Wednesday September 17, 2008 01:21:01 PM

Thanks for your responce , your really great, i have found this topc on google search,
Thanks

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Ciao Bella, on Saturday October 18, 2008 04:08:16 PM

Just a quickie to say thanks. I've had the same problem and it's now sorted thanks to your advice :-)

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