[PhotoBoy]

Thanks for everything. The computer is running very nicely, and boots up as fast as it is supposed to now! A donation is order this evening. Thank you.

I am however having problems doing the defrag you suggested. When I defragged a few days ago I had 18% space on my 80 gig drive. When I tried today I had 12%, even though lots of files had been deleted during this fix.

So, deleted the MSOffice files from my desktop, ran Clean Me again and found I now had 11% free! XP's defrag sez it needs at least 15% space to do a proper defrag so I'm perplexed.

I don't know if I should take this issue into another forum, but I did a file size search and the memory.dmp file is a whopping 523,592KB. Can this be cleaned, and are there any other 'trimming' acts I can undertake?

Because I'm a photographer I have around 22 gigs worth of images on here, but how the remaining 44 gigs can be taken up with programs I just don't know!

Edited by PhotoBoy, 07 September 2005 - 06:02 PM.

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Yikes. Not sure what to tell you there. The only thing I know how to do in that area is takes things out of startup to make it boot up faster and save resources, but I think you know how to do that too....lol

I would suggest that you post in the XP part of our forum.

http://www.geekstogo...2003-NT-f5.html


If no one gets to you, drop me a PM and I will make sure someone gets it.

Best of luck John.



Excal

[Excal]

Yikes. Not sure what to tell you there. The only thing I know how to do in that area is takes things out of startup to make it boot up faster and save resources, but I think you know how to do that too....lol

I would suggest that you post in the XP part of our forum.

http://www.geekstogo...2003-NT-f5.html


If no one gets to you, drop me a PM and I will make sure someone gets it.

Best of luck John.



Excal

[PhotoBoy]

Did another Kaspersky scan today, and that file,

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\vtstt.dll

is still there.

Tried everything to find it, but can't.

Any new ideas please?!! Thanks.

Here's the log:

KASPERSKY ON-LINE SCANNER REPORT
Friday, September 09, 2005 21:13:32
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Kaspersky On-line Scanner version: 5.0.67.0
Kaspersky Anti-Virus database last update: 10/09/2005
Kaspersky Anti-Virus database records: 139684
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Scan Settings:
Scan using the following antivirus database: standard
Scan Archives: true
Scan Mail Bases: true

Scan Target - Critical Areas:
C:\WINDOWS
C:\DOCUME~1\JOHNBA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\

Scan Statistics:
Total number of scanned objects: 18779
Number of viruses found: 1
Number of infected objects: 1
Number of suspicious objects: 0
Duration of the scan process: 1061 sec

Infected Object Name - Virus Name
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\vtstt.dll Infected: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.ConHook.k

Scan process completed.

[Excal]

Sure we will get that little bugger!

Please download the Killbox.


Please run Killbox.

• Select "Delete on Reboot".
• Copy the file names below to the clipboard by highlighting them and pressing Control-C:
  
  
  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\vtstt.dll
  
  
• Return to Killbox, go to the File menu, and choose "Paste from Clipboard".
• Click the red-and-white "Delete File" button. Click "Yes" at the Delete on Reboot prompt. Click "No" at the Pending Operations prompt.
  
  If you receive a message such as: "Component 'MsComCtl.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid." when trying to run TheKillbox, click here to download and run missingfilesetup.exe. Then try TheKillbox again..
  
• Let the system reboot.

[PhotoBoy]

OK, great, That got it. I'm clean.

Thanks so much.

[Excal]

Very nice

glad to hear it!



Excal

[Excal]

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