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I should know better, but I was IM'd via Skype by a friend suggesting I check out an .scr link
Then it cleverly says 'oops, i meant to send this to someone else, please don't look at this'
Or something to that effect. Well, I stupidly did, and fell for it.
Now, it promptly locks up your Skype, (probably sends the message to all your contacts) .. and also locks out msconfig and regedit, and even some websites / anti-virus software.
However, I did manage to isolate the running process as wndrivs32.exe - and when I kill the process, I can access regedit and msconfig for about 60 seconds before it reboots itself.
I did a google search on wndrivs32.exe and it is so new, that it is returning 0 results.
Hopefully this will help some people!
Right now I am using regedit to
"delete
SkypeStart from your registry in:HKLocalMachine/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
HKCurrentUser/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run"
Michael
www.MichaelSpire.com

You may try system restore.
or you may:
1.) start > run >cmd
than type and press enter in the black screen
taskkill /f /im skype.exe
taskkill /f /im wndrivs32.exe
taskkill /f /im mshtmldat32.exeafter stopping processes, try to locate the file specified and also check registry.
type regedit and press enter
than go with your mouse in the regedit window to my computer
than select edit
than select finde
then enter"mshtmldat32.exe" when you have found this than select it and delete it
than press f3 fro search continue
it will find it at one point with the explorer. in one line select in this cas only the mshtmldat32.exerepide this steps for
wndrivs32.exe
mshtmldat32.exe
mshtmldat32.exefor your own savety
go to start
than search
than select search for all files and folder
and searche for
wndrivs32.exe
mshtmldat32.exe
mshtmldat32.exe
WNDRIVS32.EXE-2F91B010.pfyou will need also your host file
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc \hosts
open itwit the notepad and remove all and than enter this
127.0.0.1 localhost #localhost
than save itif found delete it
than you will be clean

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