Hi,
I'm having a bit of problem with my system (using the kid's right now). I download what was suppose to be a No-cd patch for a game. Well, instead of being a No-cd patch it was filled with "nasties". McAfee's (comcast free version) stopped several Trojans but it did write something to windows\system32\service.exe. Spybot Teatimer has stopped repeated attempts to write value changes to the registry, but it doesn't stop trying to make this same change. Now on a restart Mcfee's is blocking a buffer over write which is coming from "service.exe".
I've gotten into safe mode, but can't delete the file or over-write it with copy of "service.exe" from this uninfected machine. Also, I can't seem to get McAfee's AV to run in safe-mode either.
Is the a way to fix this without losing everything on the pc? I haven't used XP's restore at all, because I've heard viruses often write to the restore info as well when you get them. While I have a backup from a month ago, you'd be surprised at all I've downloaded and game data changes since.
Any suggestions? I've used the search function here but didn't find any matches, hence the new post.
Thanks
I'm having a bit of problem with my system (using the kid's right now). I download what was suppose to be a No-cd patch for a game. Well, instead of being a No-cd patch it was filled with "nasties". McAfee's (comcast free version) stopped several Trojans but it did write something to windows\system32\service.exe. Spybot Teatimer has stopped repeated attempts to write value changes to the registry, but it doesn't stop trying to make this same change. Now on a restart Mcfee's is blocking a buffer over write which is coming from "service.exe".
I've gotten into safe mode, but can't delete the file or over-write it with copy of "service.exe" from this uninfected machine. Also, I can't seem to get McAfee's AV to run in safe-mode either.
Is the a way to fix this without losing everything on the pc? I haven't used XP's restore at all, because I've heard viruses often write to the restore info as well when you get them. While I have a backup from a month ago, you'd be surprised at all I've downloaded and game data changes since.
Any suggestions? I've used the search function here but didn't find any matches, hence the new post.
Thanks