CMD.EXE autostarts on boot

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Hello,
The past few days whenever I start my computer up I get the cmd.exe prompt
appears on my desktop and disappears about 3 times... It appears that one of
the cmd.exe's says "installing" something but disappears to quickly to catch
it. To me it seems to be a backdoor hack or virus of some kind. I tried all
kinds of virus and trojan scans, found many things(mostly adware) but nothing
will get rid of the cmd.exe problem i am having. I went through my startup
services and stuff, didn't see anything that was out of place, turned a lot
of extra stuff off, but still the cmd.exe pops up. Tried removing cmd.exe out
of my system32 folder, it keeps reappearing back in there.

Also appears that the virus has disabled my WinXP ICF(Internet Connection
Firewall) I cannot reenable it, I get a error message saying that the service
cannot start.

I am currently installing SP2, maybe that will help? But any comments or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Brad
 
I am currently installing SP2, maybe that will help

NO, that is just applying a band aid to a festering wound .
Advise you to download Sysclean :
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp
Click the Sysclean Package link. Read readme_sysclean.txt :
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/readme.txt

Download the latest pattern file here:
lpt194.zip
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp

Unzip to the Sysclean folder. Enable show hidden files and folders:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=6213

Double click Sysclean.com to start it.


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Brad said:
*Hello,
The past few days whenever I start my computer up I get the cmd.ex
prompt
appears on my desktop and disappears about 3 times... It appears tha
one of
the cmd.exe's says "installing" something but disappears to quickl
to catch
it. To me it seems to be a backdoor hack or virus of some kind.
tried all
kinds of virus and trojan scans, found many things(mostly adware) bu
nothing
will get rid of the cmd.exe problem i am having. I went through m
startup
services and stuff, didn't see anything that was out of place, turne
a lot
of extra stuff off, but still the cmd.exe pops up. Tried removin
cmd.exe out
of my system32 folder, it keeps reappearing back in there.

Also appears that the virus has disabled my WinXP ICF(Interne
Connection
Firewall) I cannot reenable it, I get a error message saying that th
service
cannot start.

I am currently installing SP2, maybe that will help? But any comment
or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Brad
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