SirCabbage
Member
Okay, so, tonight I went down to uni to do some downloading. But when I returned, I returned to see a virus. which is rare, since, well.. I havent had a virus in like 5 years.
POINT IS.
it was one of those Pops up with fake antivirus things, blocks internet, blocks this blocks that... I did a scan with malaware bytes, got rid of something, reset my computer... but thankfully my WinPatrol kicked in and stopped the virus from activating itself. SO I ran malaware bytes, cleared off the virus, reset again, no winpatrol messages of the virus trying to activate itself, did another malaware bytes scan, ect... So now the virus is basically gone, as far as I can tell its gone. I can get back on the internet, I was able to update my malaware bytes and avira... but... thats not the problem.
The problem is, something in my removal seemed to have royally screwed my task bar.
the pictures attached show what I mean, (ignor the file names and stuff, I orignally posted them on /b/ to see if they could help)
So the first and second picture shows the problem, all icons bar sound and network refuse to show. Which would be fine, if not for the other problem ive had. The grey boxes just, keep, growing. The section used by the icons keeps growing and growing until it crashes like is seen in the second picture... right now it is basically half filling the entire taskbar with em.
The third picture shows an attempt I made to fix it, on /b/ someone told me a possible way to fix it, with the following highlights
"4. Browse to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution.options
5. Under this key there will be subkeys named explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe. Delete the explorer and iexplorer keys entirely. They should not be listed under the Image"
But as the third pic shows... those keys are not there TO delete.
I have no idea what to do, I have reset many times, kept scanning for viruses and problems, but nothing. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON.
Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
Service pack 3
HELP! ;-;
POINT IS.
it was one of those Pops up with fake antivirus things, blocks internet, blocks this blocks that... I did a scan with malaware bytes, got rid of something, reset my computer... but thankfully my WinPatrol kicked in and stopped the virus from activating itself. SO I ran malaware bytes, cleared off the virus, reset again, no winpatrol messages of the virus trying to activate itself, did another malaware bytes scan, ect... So now the virus is basically gone, as far as I can tell its gone. I can get back on the internet, I was able to update my malaware bytes and avira... but... thats not the problem.
The problem is, something in my removal seemed to have royally screwed my task bar.
the pictures attached show what I mean, (ignor the file names and stuff, I orignally posted them on /b/ to see if they could help)
So the first and second picture shows the problem, all icons bar sound and network refuse to show. Which would be fine, if not for the other problem ive had. The grey boxes just, keep, growing. The section used by the icons keeps growing and growing until it crashes like is seen in the second picture... right now it is basically half filling the entire taskbar with em.
The third picture shows an attempt I made to fix it, on /b/ someone told me a possible way to fix it, with the following highlights
"4. Browse to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution.options
5. Under this key there will be subkeys named explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe. Delete the explorer and iexplorer keys entirely. They should not be listed under the Image"
But as the third pic shows... those keys are not there TO delete.
I have no idea what to do, I have reset many times, kept scanning for viruses and problems, but nothing. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON.
Vista 64 Bit Home Premium
Service pack 3
HELP! ;-;