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loss of operating system (i think)

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Name: fewh77
Date: November 16, 2008 at 02:19:10 Pacific
OS: xp home s/pack 2
CPU/Ram: amd athlon 64
Product: amd athlon 64 proces
Comment:

major trouble with comp. downloading limewire and came up with rundll msg and shutdown almost immediately. now have a userinit.exe error msg.
have lost desktop and only have background.
no acces to task manager, start tool bar, safe mode.e.t.c
will only boot with os disk in drive.
task manager has been disabled by your admin which i have not done as admin was not set.
basically cant do anything
also have had message of cant find harddrive, which hasnt been touched
i can get into log in screen but has msg of running to many prog may slow comp if comp is running slow try logging some users off.
will then return to desktop background.
may be to far gone to rescue. thankyou for your time



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Name: wanderer
Date: November 16, 2008 at 08:57:26 Pacific
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sounds like that was a hacked payload loaded version of a download.

Highly recommend a complete wipe and reinstall. Or you will leave back doors for the hacker to get back in again later.

Sure hope you weren't don't any banking with this pc.

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