Well just the other day i was on kazaa downloading some music and it starts to act all funny(eg."Kazaa.exe has will shutdown and error log will be made") and I tried to use it several times and it kept doing this. After i scan for viruses with avg 6.0 and found several viruses(eg.C:\Inetpub\scrips\httpodbc.dll is infected with Backdoor.IISCrack.dll C:\recycled\_\com1\_tmp\svhost.exe is infected with Backdoor.Trojan C:\WINNT\system32\upload.exe is infected with Backdoor.Sdbot C:\WINNT\system32\svhost.exe is infected with Backdoor.Trojan C:\WINNT\system32\SMNT.exe is infected with Trojan Horse Irc/Backdoor.flood And also Trojan horse downloader.small, and I-Worm/yaha.k) I can't open any of my .exe files except internet explorer from the desktop and everything esle has to be opened by using a file that uses the program. I can't go into Regedit.exe either to clean it up. What can i do besides getting a firewall,anti-virus, and anti-trojan. Reformatting is what im going for but im curious to know if any files(eg. documents, music, pictures and ect...) i backup now will cause problems once i put them on after a clean install. Sorry if something like this ha been posted. Hope some one can reply quickly. Thanks!

"anti-virus, and anti-trojan" is what you should get/use to rid yourself of the infection/s. Backing up data or app setup's might carry an infected file back into the reinstall. Try posting this in the computing.net security and virus forum. While you wait for a response do an online virus scan and download a trojan remover from pcflank.com.

it is good that you got hacked

do you still have this on your computer or have you cleaned up? can you still not access any exe files?

No i still can't acces them and why is it good that i got hacked?

Here, go to the following like, and follow all of the instructions to clean YAHA.K off your computer...if you follow the clean instructions, COMPLETELY, you'll be able to open .exe files again... http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.yaha.k@mm.html An even better way, rather than manually cleaning up the virus, is to download the "removal tool" from http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.yaha.removal.tool.html Either way, it should get you up and going... You can't open .exe files, because the virus modifies the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\exefile\shell\open\command The instructions on the link above, and the removal tool, change this registry entry back to the default "%1" %* (In other words, the following characters: quote-percent-one-quote-space-percent-asterisk)

I know thats what i have to do but i can't open the registry and thats my problem also whenever my computer starts up i get the box that says "starting up windows..." then i get preparing network connections which always pop up but know im getting applying computer settings... and this is probably cuasing my problems and is there any other way to get into the registry?