re: PSAPI.DLL file not found
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 7:45 pm
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Posted by Ms T
(4 messages posted)
Thanks Jack for the help!! Couple of problems...I am able to get to the a:. I did
download the cwshredder to a diskette (using my laptop) but then when I tried to
run it on the other computer, it shows it is a .zip file and I don't know how to
get it to run. Any thoughts??
Thanks!!!
On Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 6:31 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
>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.
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