Task manager

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Walter Barrett

Task manager will not remain open
the view shuts down almost as soon as it opens
at other times it will stay on screen until it is closed.

How do I determin which processes can be closed or which
ones must be running.

When windows 2000 starts loading the c drive runs for a
long time.
 
There is a known virus that will cause this behavior. It will do the same
thing to regedit. Run a virus scan...

Ray at home
 
I tried this link. It lead me to a virus removal tool at Symantec
After running the tool, in safe mode, it reported:
The W32.Klex virus was not found on your computer".

I guess i should be happy, but Task Manager sitll wont work?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks
carl

PS i use Win 2000 Pro and have Norton internet Security 2003 running
(with Anti Virus enabled) all the time.
 
Yep, it turned out to be a Virus, all right.
Here' s what I did.. good luck. YMMV


Try This:
1. Copy taskmgr.exe and regedit.exe to MY Documents

2. RENAME them taskmgr.COM and regedit.COM

3. RUN Taskmgr.COM. it should work ok now.

4. IN Proceeses, find Winlodr.scr (or something like that) and KILL
IT.

5. in c:\winnt\system32 find winlodr.scr and DELETE it.

6. EMPTY the recyle bin Right Away.

7. Run Regedit

8 find and DELETE all keys that reference winlodr.scr

9 Reboot.

10 do the ctrl-alt.del thing and make sure regular Task manager works
ok

This is a bad virus. it got thru my firewall and past norton antivirus
2003.

good luck
Carl
(e-mail address removed)
 
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