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re: PSAPI.DLL file not found
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 6:31 pm
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Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted)


Sounds like you might have had a bad infection of the CoolWebSearch browser hijacker. There is a version going around the past few days that has been spread by normally reputable web sites that appear to have been hijacked their selves.

Can you at least boot the system into Safe Mode (hold Ctrl key down before the Windows ME splash screen and then select Safe Mode in the boot menu)? I you can, then down load CWShredder.exe v1.59.1 (by Merijn) and copy it to a diskette and use it to run CWShredder on your system in Safe Mode. Then manually run your AV and any spyware scanners you have installed.

Your system Registry and INI files might have been corrupted to the point they can not find programs in the normal paths. You could try from the DOS diskette running SCANREG /restore and select the "started" copy of the Registry from the day before the problems started, as a last resort.


Written in response to:
PSAPI.DLL file not found (Ms T: Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 4:10 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: PSAPI.DLL file not found (Ms T: Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 7:45 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-PSAPI.DLL file not found (Ms T: Wed, Jan 5, 2005, 4:10 pm)
-re: PSAPI.DLL file not found (Jack Gulley: Wed, Jan 5, 2005, 6:31 pm)
-re: PSAPI.DLL file not found (Ms T: Wed, Jan 5, 2005, 7:45 pm)
-re: PSAPI.DLL file not found (Jack Gulley: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 12:01 am)
-re: PSAPI.DLL file not found (Ms T: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 5:22 am)
-re: PSAPI.DLL file not found (Jack Gulley: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 12:05 pm)
*re: PSAPI.DLL file not found (Ms T: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 8:36 pm)
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