re: no icons or taskbar on startup
Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 1:13 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom Myboy
(290 messages posted)
This problem can occur when you are infected with a virus that seems to be unreported
on symantec or any of the other anti-virus resources I've found.
If you can get to task manager, go to the Processes tab, and look for a process called
'SYSU.EXE'. If it's running, kill it.
Now, if your desktop suddenly returns to normal, then yes, you've got this virus.
You're not out of the woods yet. There is probably a folder on your machine called
'C:\Program Files\ddm'. Delete that, of course. You'll probably also want to search
your registry for the string 'ddm' and kill most of what you find. In particular
the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ddm, and anything under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
and/or RunOnce that refers to 'ddm' or 'sysu.exe'.
On Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 9:59 am, thehunter02 wrote:
>When I boot my computer, I have no icons or taskbar when windows boots. I can bring
>them up by restarting explorer. I have scanned for viruses with my norton 2003,
but
>nothing is detected. Something is wrong with my norton though. Autodetect will not
>come on, and when you enable it, it still won't come on. Also, I am getting an email
>protection error. Do I have a virus that I have yet to get rid of, or is there another
>problem?
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