Strange shutdown useability and other strange things

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hello,

I was installing a program last night and while installing Norton recognized
it as spyware, so i said for it to remove the software. however, after a
reboot i noticed that none of my startup programs ran at all. so i fired up
some programs that took a look at all my startup lists and as it turned out
something put "-" infront of all the ImagePath in the registry, so i simply
changed thoose and now all my programs load. the spyware also injected itself
into the LSP so i had to fixthat as well.

however, i still am having trouble w/ shuttingdown. when i go start -> i
ONLY have the option to log off and the same thing when i try and use the
taskmanager. i am only allowed to logoff then restart instad of direct
access. i am the owner of this computer and this only started after the
reboot when norton "fixed" my problem and i installed that softwareby mistake.

if you could please help out and why i can't do that would be great. i am
not afraid to use regedit or anything.

thanks!

--cisbrane
 
cisbrane said:
I was installing a program last night and while installing Norton recognized
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You should disable antivirus before installing programs that contain
spyware. Contacting Norton / Symantec is not a bad idea.
however, i still am having trouble w/ shuttingdown. when i go start -> i
ONLY have the option to log off and the same thing when i try and use the
taskmanager.
Click to expand...

When task manager is greyed out [assuming that's what's happening, I wasn't
clear], there are a variety of ways to fix it, depending on how / where the
setting was changed: in the registry, in group policy, etc. A google search
gives you some fixes:

www.google.com/search?q=task%2Dmanager+greyed%2Dout+OR+grayed%2Dout+registry

http://x220.win2ktest.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=8844&#36143
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Q_21587219.html
 
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