re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, September 15, 2003 at 11:22 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mike (12 messages posted) Just found something similar on a customer's PC. Boot to DOS and look in Windows\System folder for NBRUTE.SCR - it may have the 'hidden' attribute set so DIR with a /a switch. Delete it. Boot in SAFE mode to get access to Regedit and go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run - you may see another Winsock2 driver there that connects to nbrute.scr. Delete the entry and check the other Run entries as well for similar. This type of virus or trojan can reinstall itself but it should be safe if you delete nbrute.scr. Sophos AntiVirus don't know of this yet so I've emailed it to them. Sound like a new version of the 'Spybot' trojan. Run a firewall - Agnitum Outpost is free and very good. Hope this helps. Mike On Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 7:58 pm, Greg wrote: >I did the same thing Doug did. I'm running Windows XP Home, and the offendign .scr >file was named nbrute.scr. I couldn't delete it, so I just renamed the extension, >rebooted, and all's well for now. > > Written in response to: re: Task Manager closes when opened (Greg: Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 7:58 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Task Manager closes when opened (George: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 8:49 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Bob B: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 9:09 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (sachin Patel: Mon, Apr 28, 2003, 4:02 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Joel: Mon, Apr 28, 2003, 12:48 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (sonny: Fri, Sep 12, 2003, 3:32 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Doug : Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 5:50 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Greg: Sun, Aug 17, 2003, 7:58 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Mike: Mon, Sep 15, 2003, 11:22 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Colin Cogle: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 11:26 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Harrison: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 11:38 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Harrison: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 11:42 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Otto: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 7:18 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Ilya Mayzus: Sun, Aug 17, 2003, 4:42 pm) THX (King_Fries: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 3:21 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (NeoDeltaI: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 7:01 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (sonny: Fri, Sep 12, 2003, 3:37 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Brandon: Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 7:30 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Don: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 2:00 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Erick C.: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 5:37 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Don: Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 9:04 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Harrison: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 8:08 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened = spybot (arend vogel: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 4:49 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened = spybot (ObsceneJester: Thu, Feb 19, 2004, 6:17 am) re: A suggestion to fixing Task Manager closes when opened = spybot (mike: Thu, Feb 26, 2004, 11:50 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Jason: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 10:28 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (James: Sun, Jun 20, 2004, 6:44 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Tsvetoslav: Mon, Oct 25, 2004, 7:52 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Gareth Gudger: Mon, Mar 14, 2005, 8:43 am) re: Task Manager closes when opened (David: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 3:07 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Falcon: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 3:17 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Rob: Mon, Aug 16, 2004, 8:06 pm) re: Task Manager closes when opened (Rob: Mon, Aug 16, 2004, 8:13 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum