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re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, March 10, 2003 at 9:09 am Posted by Bob B (2307 messages posted) Can you spell virus? If you don't have a good program (which is also up to date) get one ASAP. Also look into items like Spybot to get rid of the "Heists" that some unscrupulous "advertisers" perform on your system. On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 8:49 am, George wrote: >I was trying to end a program by using ctrl+alt+del and my task manager came up and >closed the next second without me being able to do anything. I tried it again but >it did the same thing and its been a month since this has been happening. How can >i fix my task manager and make it stay open like it used to? Thank you all in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, April 28, 2003 at 4:02 am Posted by sachin Patel (2 messages posted) Hi, ive got the lastest norton anti virus software and ive used adaware spyware remover and still the task manager closes. iv looked in the task manager in safe mode and taken things that are not needed but in normal mode it still does the same. could any plz help?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, April 28, 2003 at 12:48 pm Posted by Joel (1 messages posted) All i know is that it is a virus that affects the windows regisrty and you have to go into the regisrty and delete some line but i'm not sure which line to delete. On Monday, April 28, 2003 at 4:02 am, sachin Patel wrote: >Hi, ive got the lastest norton anti virus software and ive used adaware spyware remover >and still the task manager closes. iv looked in the task manager in safe mode and >taken things that are not needed but in normal mode it still does the same. could >any plz help?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 11:26 am Posted by Colin Cogle (3 messages posted) I also have the same problem. If it is a program, then we both must have it? Do you have Kazaa? I think that that may be the problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, August 4, 2003 at 5:50 pm Posted by Doug (1 messages posted) I just got this problem and fixed it. There is a screen saver program I downloade from a news group and click on by accident. It put a file in (windows 2000) winnt\system32 called wincfg.scr.. you will also see it in you screen saver list. I did not have this file as my screen saver. I changed the extention on the file since it is in use and will not delete, reboot and task mgr work again.. good luck and be carrfull what you click On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 9:09 am, Bob B wrote: >Can you spell virus? If you don't have a good program (which is also up to date) >get one ASAP. Also look into items like Spybot to get rid of the "Heists" that some >unscrupulous "advertisers" perform on your system. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Saturday, August 16, 2003 at 11:38 am Posted by Harrison (3 messages posted) I have the same problem. I also used Kazaa (Lite) and the problem surfaced after I downloaded a file. I double clicked it, it disappeared, and then the system was extremely slow and I could not open the task manager (it closes when it opens.) I am running windows XP. On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 11:26 am, Colin Cogle wrote: >I also have the same problem. If it is a program, then we both must have it? Do >you have Kazaa? I think that that may be the problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Saturday, August 16, 2003 at 11:42 am Posted by Harrison (3 messages posted) Oh, and I just found this: http://forums.techguy.org/t153432/s.html On Saturday, August 16, 2003 at 11:38 am, Harrison wrote: >I have the same problem. I also used Kazaa (Lite) and the problem surfaced after >I downloaded a file. I double clicked it, it disappeared, and then the system was >extremely slow and I could not open the task manager (it closes when it opens.) >I am running windows XP. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 4:42 pm Posted by Ilya Mayzus (1 messages posted) I just solved it after reading a couple of similar messages on forums. In my case the offensive program was called explorer64.exe (in c:\winnt\system32), and there were entry in registry; if you can't open registry in normal mode, reload in safe mode, then run regedit and search for Run -- in find window, uncheck values and data, leave keys checked and check 'Match whole string'; then look through all keys with Run and Run Once, you'll probably find something suspicious; in particular, an entry pointing to a program without path means that the program is inside winnt\system32; after I got rid of registry entreis for explorer64 and took it out of c:\winnt\system32, the problem was solved. On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 8:49 am, George wrote: >I was trying to end a program by using ctrl+alt+del and my task manager came up and >closed the next second without me being able to do anything. I tried it again but >it did the same thing and its been a month since this has been happening. How can >i fix my task manager and make it stay open like it used to? Thank you all in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 7:58 pm Posted by Greg (1 messages posted) 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. On Monday, August 4, 2003 at 5:50 pm, Doug wrote: >I just got this problem and fixed it. There is a screen saver program I downloade >from a news group and click on by accident. It put a file in (windows 2000) winnt\system32 > called wincfg.scr.. you will also see it in you screen saver list. I did not have >this file as my screen saver. I changed the extention on the file since it is in >use and will not delete, reboot and task mgr work again.. good luck and be carrfull >what you click > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 7:01 pm Posted by NeoDeltaI (1 messages posted) I'm currently debugging a friend's computer, and I found a file that was running at startup that would semi-instantly close Task Manager, msconfig, and regedit when they were opened. I finally got lucky and ended the task before it could close the Task Manager window (I did it while windows XP was just opening up). The file was called jimglpmaze.exe, in the windows\system32... I searched for information on it on Google, but no results... Has anyone heard of this file, and what exectly does it do (apart from close diagnostic windows, of course)? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Friday, September 12, 2003 at 3:32 pm Posted by sonny (2 messages posted) I had this problem, I solved it by removing a file called explorer64.exe from my c:\windows\system32 and deleting it in regedit hkey_current_user/software/microsoft/windows/runonce On Monday, April 28, 2003 at 4:02 am, sachin Patel wrote: >Hi, ive got the lastest norton anti virus software and ive used adaware spyware remover >and still the task manager closes. iv looked in the task manager in safe mode and >taken things that are not needed but in normal mode it still does the same. could >any plz help?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Friday, September 12, 2003 at 3:37 pm Posted by sonny (2 messages posted) get this program Task List X-1.0.0.exe and use it as taskmanager, stop the file from running, and remove it On Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 7:01 pm, NeoDeltaI wrote: >I'm currently debugging a friend's computer, and I found a file that was running >at startup that would semi-instantly close Task Manager, msconfig, and regedit when >they were opened. I finally got lucky and ended the task before it could close the >Task Manager window (I did it while windows XP was just opening up). > >The file was called jimglpmaze.exe, in the windows\system32... I searched for information >on it on Google, but no results... Has anyone heard of this file, and what exectly >does it do (apart from close diagnostic windows, of course)? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, September 15, 2003 at 11:22 am 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] THX Friday, September 26, 2003 at 3:21 am Posted by King_Fries (1 messages posted) Thanks to the man with the knowledge. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 7:30 pm Posted by Brandon (1 messages posted) I was having the same problem with task manager plus a few other programs, but I checked out task manager while I had it opened one time and there was a strange process running about 50% of my CPU called winkib.exe. When I ended that process, task manager quit closing on me and I quit lagging so much :P On Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 7:01 pm, NeoDeltaI wrote: >I'm currently debugging a friend's computer, and I found a file that was running >at startup that would semi-instantly close Task Manager, msconfig, and regedit when >they were opened. I finally got lucky and ended the task before it could close the >Task Manager window (I did it while windows XP was just opening up). > >The file was called jimglpmaze.exe, in the windows\system32... I searched for information >on it on Google, but no results... Has anyone heard of this file, and what exectly >does it do (apart from close diagnostic windows, of course)? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 7:18 pm Posted by Otto (1 messages posted) LISTEN UP, I had the same problem as all of you. I haven't used task manager for the last 6 months because it would disappear right when i opened it. I believe it is due to a virus and simply by completely renaming all of your task manager files it will work. THANK YOU guys all for posting these things and helping get my task manager working again!!!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 2:00 pm Posted by Don (2 messages posted) I too have this problem. The best thing I did so far was to copy "taskmgr.exe" and rename it to "taskmgr.com" as someone has already posted. This allowed me to open task manager and locate the files giving me problems. My files were varied but the original was tool.exe which I initally thought was part of Nero. I also had other files that were giving me problems and I assume they are from the same virus. These seem to be called a legitimate file followed by a few random letters such as ATIebg.exe and MSGSexx.exe. My infection came, I think, when I was plugged directly into my cable modem and I was not using my firewall. On Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 7:30 pm, Brandon wrote: > >I was having the same problem with task manager plus a few other programs, but I >checked out task manager while I had it opened one time and there was a strange process >running about 50% of my CPU called winkib.exe. When I ended that process, task manager >quit closing on me and I quit lagging so much :P > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, November 24, 2003 at 5:37 pm Posted by Erick C. (1 messages posted) Following the advice of one of the posts above, I renamed taskmgr to taskmgr.com and found that a deal called WUAUMGR.exe had been the trouble maker. The only problem is that I don't know where it is in the regedit or how to stop it from restarting with startup (it re-enables itself even though I disable it in msconfig). Any suggestions would be apprecciated. Thanks Eric On Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 2:00 pm, Don wrote: > >I too have this problem. The best thing I did so far was to copy "taskmgr.exe" and >rename it to "taskmgr.com" as someone has already posted. This allowed me to open >task manager and locate the files giving me problems. My files were varied but the >original was tool.exe which I initally thought was part of Nero. I also had other >files that were giving me problems and I assume they are from the same virus. These >seem to be called a legitimate file followed by a few random letters such as ATIebg.exe >and MSGSexx.exe. My infection came, I think, when I was plugged directly into my >cable modem and I was not using my firewall. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 9:04 am Posted by Don (2 messages posted) Eric, I ran an online antivirus scan from RAV Antivirus (www.ravantivirus.com). This showed me all of the viruses I had but did not clean anything. After it found all of the viruses, I copied all of the exe names (for example WUAUMGR.exe) it had found to notepad. From there I went to regedit and did a "find" for all of the exe's on my list and deleted every instance of them from the registry. I then did a normal Windows search and deleted every instance of them on the computer. I then rebooted to a well working computer. This was time consuming but it removed the viruses. I re-ran the RAV online scan to make sure I was clean. It found the same viruses in the "System Restore" (WinXP), so I turned it off which resets and deletes the restore information. Hope this helps... Don On Monday, November 24, 2003 at 5:37 pm, Erick C. wrote: > >Following the advice of one of the posts above, I renamed taskmgr to taskmgr.com >and found that a deal called WUAUMGR.exe had been the trouble maker. The only problem >is that I don't know where it is in the regedit or how to stop it from restarting >with startup (it re-enables itself even though I disable it in msconfig). Any suggestions >would be apprecciated. Thanks Eric > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Friday, December 19, 2003 at 8:08 pm Posted by Harrison (3 messages posted) THE SOLUTION THAT I FOUND: In my WINDOWS folder, I found a file called WINSOCK32.EXE. This should not exist; winsock32.dll is a system file, but winsock32.exe is a virus. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened = spybot Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 4:49 pm Posted by arend vogel (1 messages posted) Big chance it's spybot worm. check: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html for information about the spybot worm and how to remove it. On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 8:49 am, George wrote: >I was trying to end a program by using ctrl+alt+del and my task manager came up and >closed the next second without me being able to do anything. I tried it again but >it did the same thing and its been a month since this has been happening. How can >i fix my task manager and make it stay open like it used to? Thank you all in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened = spybot Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 6:17 am Posted by ObsceneJester (1 messages posted) Mine Sure was Dat Spybot Worm.Used this site to remove it. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 4:49 pm, arend vogel wrote: >Big chance it's spybot worm. > >check: > >http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html > >for information about the spybot worm and how to remove it. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: A suggestion to fixing Task Manager closes when opened = spybot Thursday, February 26, 2004 at 11:50 am Posted by mike (3 messages posted) reet dudes. i 2 had this problem i found that my current virus checker didn't find the viruses, so i went to a special page http://www.ravantivirus.com/ this is genius... it tell u locations of viruses etc err also beware of hidden files !!! the little buggers are sneaky! On Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 6:17 am, ObsceneJester wrote: > >Mine Sure was Dat Spybot Worm.Used this site to remove it. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Friday, February 27, 2004 at 10:28 pm Posted by Jason (1 messages posted) I want to thank everyone here for their invaulable advice...i had the same problem, and found that it was being caused by a little file names tskmngr32.exe...deleted it and things went back to normal [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Sunday, June 20, 2004 at 6:44 pm Posted by James (1 messages posted) I also had the same problem, the offending file was located at C:/windows/system 32/TASKMAR.EXE. It was a hidden file about 19 KB. I found it using Sysinternals Process explorer. You Can Find this program at WWW.sysinternals.com. I believe it is freeware or requires a donation or something. I also found a series of files (again in system 32 folder) they were 24KB large and were a series of eight or nine random letters followed by .exe (xxxxxxxx.exe) i believe these to be some sort of trojan horse files. Try using the RAV intivirus websites online virus scan it is very effective and very thurough. good luck! On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 10:28 pm, Jason wrote: >I want to thank everyone here for their invaulable advice...i had the same problem, >and found that it was being caused by a little file names tskmngr32.exe...deleted >it and things went back to normal [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, August 16, 2004 at 8:06 pm Posted by Rob (2 messages posted) I just found MSDenoU.exe in the windows\system32 folder. Once I deleted it, I was able to open task manager and regedit with no problem. Afterwards, I searched through the reg and found about 3 or 4 references to it. It was not picked up by Norton, Ad-Aware, Panda Search, or Pest Patrol. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, August 16, 2004 at 8:13 pm Posted by Rob (2 messages posted) Oh yeah, you will have to be in Safe Mode to delete the MSDenoU.exe file [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, October 25, 2004 at 7:52 pm Posted by Tsvetoslav (1 messages posted) Phew.. a month without task manager.. i renamed the taskmgr to taskmgr. <-- with a dot.. and then disabled suspicious programs untill my real task manager worked.. and the file that was causing the problem was.. BSPLAYER.exe weird huh.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, March 14, 2005 at 8:43 am Posted by Gareth Gudger (1 messages posted) I had the same symptoms as you guys and it turned out the culprit file was AOLCLIENT.EXE which was running in the system folder. After ending the process, deleting the file and cleaning up its entries in the registry (searched for AOLCLIENT.EXE) my problems went away. On Monday, October 25, 2004 at 7:52 pm, Tsvetoslav wrote: >Phew.. a month without task manager.. i renamed the taskmgr to taskmgr. <-- >with a dot.. and then disabled suspicious programs untill my real task manager worked.. >and the file that was causing the problem was.. BSPLAYER.exe weird huh.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, April 4, 2005 at 3:07 pm Posted by David (1 messages posted) I have this same problem. I renamed my task manager and opened it. I found that the my offensive program was windowsserv.exe . Now that I know what the program is, I can end it each time I reboot. I would like to know how I can completely remove this from my computer though. Any tips and help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks in advance. On Monday, March 14, 2005 at 8:43 am, Gareth Gudger wrote: >I had the same symptoms as you guys and it turned out the culprit file was AOLCLIENT.EXE >which was running in the system folder. After ending the process, deleting the file >and cleaning up its entries in the registry (searched for AOLCLIENT.EXE) my problems >went away. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Task Manager closes when opened Monday, April 4, 2005 at 3:17 pm Posted by Falcon (13489 messages posted) Perform the following: Disable System Restore Perform an online virus scan. Download, update, and run these tools: Spybot Search & Destroy Lavasoft Adaware CWShredder Repeat as necessary until clean. If you still experience problems after doing these steps, download HijackThis and post a log to this forum. To protect against reinfection, download and use these: Javacool's SpywareBlaster Javacool's SpywareGuard Malware-blocking HOSTS file Optionally Reenable System Restore If you encounter any broken links, please inform me of them. Also note that these links direct through my web server to allow me to keep them up-to-date or post additional info. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum