I just lost my desktop!! ???

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As I write this, all the icons and the taskbar have
disappeared...leaving only the background image (radiance.bmp).
I was viewing some files in explorer then closed the app by hitting
the X up in the corner...and everything else has disappeared. If I
open taskmanager, everything looks normal and in EventViewer,, there's
no record of an "event" as such...not yet....there seems to be some
"holes" in the times displayed.
Luckily, I had another Explorer window open at the time, and have been
able to access programs and control panel, but according to SYSTEM,
everything is just dandy; I don't know if that's part of the problem
or if, as I suspect, there's a hijaker or trojan at work.

Now, I've installed a program that simply monitors everything that
happens at startup and compares it to the last logs....and suddenly, I
am denied access to that program's log!
AND...there's suddenly a NT Network Authority changing system access
values and sending "Security Packages" to %ROOT SYSTEM%.....and just
now, checking Event Viewer, access has been attempted to several .dlls
with an invalid login....
There's a lot going on here, I know. I DO have complete, timestamped
system scan files the last couple of days, by a program called "HIJACK
THIS!" (yeah, it's meant to be offensively sarcastic in a cynical,
"victim-turned-protaganist" kind of way.
I can post those if anyone thinks they can spot some obvious weirdness
going on in the registry, system32 and .dll/.com and BHO
lists....frankly, my vision isn't quite what it's supposed to be, and
trying to vue these logs/lists side by side is giving me a headache!
:)
I could sure use some help if your'e willing to tackle it.
Thanks in advance....I'll probably just reboot and check back later,
but damn, I'm almost afraid to restart, for fear of what's going to
happen next...but that's just my paranoia and frustration with all the
HOLES in XP and IE6, despite, or BECAUSE of, all the damned patches
(PATCHES??! We don't neeed no steeenking PATCHES!", and, ahumph,
Security updates.....damn I've had nothing but trouble since i bought
this danged thing.
Oh well, I'm rambling now (must be the spiked eggnog!)...so I'll sign
off for now and look back in in an hour or so.
Thnx
zed
 
Hijack This! is actually a program that detects and removes browser hijack
software... This link has more info: http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/
I'm not saying that this is actually the program you are seeing running,
however, but this is the only reference to that phrase that I can find on
Google...

One thing you might try to do is this:

1) Right-Click somewhere on your Desktop.
2) Highlight, "Arrange Icons By >" (A submenu will appear)
3) Look towards the bottom of the submenu (third selection up from bottom)
and check to make sure that there is a check mark next to, "Show Desktop
Icons". If not, highlight and click it.

I bet that will take care of your problem...
 
Hijack This! is actually a program that detects and removes browser hijack
software... This link has more info: http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/
I'm not saying that this is actually the program you are seeing running,
however, but this is the only reference to that phrase that I can find on
Google...

One thing you might try to do is this:

1) Right-Click somewhere on your Desktop.
2) Highlight, "Arrange Icons By >" (A submenu will appear)
3) Look towards the bottom of the submenu (third selection up from bottom)
and check to make sure that there is a check mark next to, "Show Desktop
Icons". If not, highlight and click it.

I bet that will take care of your problem...
Click to expand...

Heheh, yeah, that was the least of my problems! :)p
...and of course, I -wuz-- wron....wrrronnn...rrrrrr....ahem,, you were
correct about the function of Hijack this!; the other app I have
running "invisibly" simply and independently monitoring if there is
any change, one to the next, between boot-ups, is called 007 Spy
Software; sorry for the misinform..
shoot, I've gone through the OE Norton scanner, to AntiVirus Personal
edition for XP...to ..TrojanRemover and a few others, in the past
couple of weeks.
And, sure enough, even after all this, I the damned thing pops up
every once in awhile (TR/Classloader.Byte Verify trojan horse), thumbs
it's nasty little virii-nose at me and dives back into the SYStem to
wreak some kind of havoc.
I've learned alot about this area in a few intense days of battle with
this guy....about IT, viruses in general, XP and my limits of sitting
in front of a screen for endless hours.....so it hasn't all been a
loss.
Oh yeah, someone mentioned that Christmas is around now...or just
past, or is just coming up...
sheees, I thought it was November!!!
heheh,
Thanks for the replly, a belated merry HoHo to ya and I hope you have
a great New years!
Me? Well, me and a certain morphingmotherfu_ker, maliciously-generated
I.E.6blasting,Search-hijacking,Dll-generating, REGkey-erasing and
writing, blot of organized electrons and I have a date....should be
fun :)
Naw, really,, I'm getting a handle on it...and fiding that XP has some
pretty good tools to deal with this sort of thing.
What's frustrating, is that as soon as I think I've done all the
scans, found all the morphing Dlls, restored all the redirected
commands, installed all the scanners, blockers,, finders, scrubbers,
destroyer applications to block further problems...the damned thing
re-takes over System ADMIN priveledges, signs itself on and makes me
re-boot; starting the whooooole thing all over again....
Sure would help if the HD-hogging System Restore and Recovery app
actually worked as advertised; I've yet been able to restore, or
recover....not once.
And of course, old Mr. Trojan has broken the ALL POWERFUL Partition
and so, it wouldn't do me any good anyway.
Damned Active X.....listen up youngsters! ( if there are any out
there)
learn from your weary, bleary-eyed Elders:
DO NOT go innocently out there into that good night, cruising
pornsites after a couple of beers and another fight with your
Ex...with Internet Explorer's Active X and JavaScripting ON...and no
proxy....and no firewall....
yer just BEGGING for trouble!
<with a heavy sigh, Zed takes a long, deep breath and steps off his
soapbox....head hung low and a noticable twitch in the corner of one
eye....<
Thanks for the reply, FeMaster....nice of ya to take the time.
Zed
 
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