chip2006uk
New Member
Ok hello again everyone, I recently posted about a problem with explorer.exe here http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/154824-explorer-exe-being-pain.html#post718134 which I believed to have found the solution. Well although I found the cause of the problem and (thought) I had fixed it it seems like this isnt the end.
Basically a bit of background first, After stupidly downloading a very suspicious file the option to open the task manager dissapears, after finding a fix to this (thanks to Brink) I realised that explorer would every so often stop responding and restart, this started to happen alot and eventually I found a .dll file that was causing this, after deleting it I thought that was that.
Now to the matter at hand - The other day explorer was once again being slow so I looked in the task manager processes and found this (this screenshot was taken just now,)
And thats only about a third of the rundll32.exe processes that are running at the moment.
So yeah needless to say this is bogging down the system and subsequently really getting on my nerves. Ive also done about a million virus searches with various different programs all updated and in safe mode and although each one has found some sort of virus (off the top of my head i recall TR/vundo and a couple of others) the problem is still there
Anyway the file the *seems* to be the problem is this one (this is in the autoruns program).
The file is called 1c1a6320 (just under the PC tools firewall) but unfortunately the image path is seemingly generated at random each time it activates itself. Everytime I delete that file things run smooth for a while but then sooner or later it comes back with a randomly generated file name. Im pretty sure the rundll32.exe and this file are connected, I would say Im about 95% sure, everytime I find a lot of rundll32.exe's running im pretty certain that this file will have activated itself.
Argh my laptops been playing up ever since I downloaded that one file, I hate myself for downloading such an obviously suspicious file. How can one little file cause so much aggro?
Any help would be appreciated
Wont be able to reply to for a while but I should be able to in the next 3 hours or so
Basically a bit of background first, After stupidly downloading a very suspicious file the option to open the task manager dissapears, after finding a fix to this (thanks to Brink) I realised that explorer would every so often stop responding and restart, this started to happen alot and eventually I found a .dll file that was causing this, after deleting it I thought that was that.
Now to the matter at hand - The other day explorer was once again being slow so I looked in the task manager processes and found this (this screenshot was taken just now,)
And thats only about a third of the rundll32.exe processes that are running at the moment.
So yeah needless to say this is bogging down the system and subsequently really getting on my nerves. Ive also done about a million virus searches with various different programs all updated and in safe mode and although each one has found some sort of virus (off the top of my head i recall TR/vundo and a couple of others) the problem is still there
Anyway the file the *seems* to be the problem is this one (this is in the autoruns program).
The file is called 1c1a6320 (just under the PC tools firewall) but unfortunately the image path is seemingly generated at random each time it activates itself. Everytime I delete that file things run smooth for a while but then sooner or later it comes back with a randomly generated file name. Im pretty sure the rundll32.exe and this file are connected, I would say Im about 95% sure, everytime I find a lot of rundll32.exe's running im pretty certain that this file will have activated itself.
Argh my laptops been playing up ever since I downloaded that one file, I hate myself for downloading such an obviously suspicious file. How can one little file cause so much aggro?
Any help would be appreciated
Wont be able to reply to for a while but I should be able to in the next 3 hours or so
so just post a question instead of just a "bump"