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"Generic Host Process for Win32 Services" error when I boot (i9200)

post #1 of 10
3/14/05 at 10:18pm
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Someone please help...

The last two times I have booted, I receive this error:



Anyone know what that means or what I can do to fix it?

Thanks!
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post #2 of 10
3/14/05 at 11:00pm
Install Anti Virus and anti spyware.. you pc has been infected by Trojan. You may use ad-aware or spybot to kill the trojan.
This could come from SDBOT.S TROJAN! or DINFOR.D WORM! or SDBOT-O WORM!

Hope this helps....
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post #3 of 10
3/14/05 at 11:06pm
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Thanks! I ran ad-aware but it didn't say anything about a virus or any of those names you mentioned. I'll try spybot as well.

How will this effect my machine? Once it's gone, will anything have changed?

Thanks again...
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post #4 of 10
3/14/05 at 11:55pm
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Well, after I ran ad-aware, I d/l avast! and ran that. It turned up NO infected files, so whatever ad-aware did must have worked. The error screen no longer shows up when I boot! AWESOME!!

Thanks again. Must be more careful what I download...
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post #5 of 10
3/15/05 at 12:09am
Good on you.... You can have a nice sleep then!!
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post #6 of 10
3/15/05 at 12:09pm
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bad news...

When I turned on the comptuer this morning, the error was back. I ran avast! and it turned up an infected file this time:

Name: installerapplet.class
Virus: VBS:Malware [Gen]
Org. Location: \Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javapi\v1.0\jar\javainstaller.jar-3c936701-3709fe46.zip\javainstaller

What the hell is that? That's not where I expected to find a virus. Any ideas?
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post #7 of 10
3/15/05 at 12:58pm
You can nickle and dime the system to death or save yourself considerable time and heartache by just formatting the hard drive and reinstalling Windows.

I know it's not what you want, but its probably the best way to stop the madness.
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post #8 of 10
3/15/05 at 1:24pm
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That actually wouldn't bother me too much, probably something I need to do every once in a while anyway.

I just have to make sure I get all my good stuff copied over to my data partition. Would the virus be confined to the C: drive?
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post #9 of 10
3/20/05 at 7:27am
My desktop (XP-SP2) also get those error message ... but I don't think it's a virus as my antivirus is fully up-to-date and scan in real-time. And beside I never get the error when I was using w2k, it appear only when I begin to use XP.
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post #10 of 10
3/21/05 at 9:05am
Would would not by chance have just installed norton products recently would you have?

I installed norton internet security 2005 on a friends computer and it took me like 2 hours to figure out what caused it. It ended up being part of nortons firewall.
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