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no icons or taskbar on startup
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no icons or taskbar on startup
Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 9:59 am
Posted by thehunter02
(6 messages posted)
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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re: no icons or taskbar on startup
Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 10:22 am
Posted by Tuvayas
(3 messages posted)
IM ALSO HAVING THIS SAME EXACT PROBLEM!!! I SCANNED FOR VIRUSES AND I HAD NONE AND
THEN I TRIED TO ENABLE AUTO PROTECT AND IT NEVER STARTED! I have to hit CTRL ALT
DELT And click on new task in order to start a program!! HELP PLEASE!!
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re: no icons or taskbar on startup
Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 11:30 am
Posted by xpadvisor
(847 messages posted)
You may indeed have a virus. The newer bad-boys are trained to turn off antivirus,
spywareblockers and firewalls if needed. Can you get to the internet ? Go to and
run housecall.antivirus.com. Also download Stinger utility from
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ and run it. If a particular virus is mentioned
in the housecall scan, you may want the specific removal tool from Norton website.
Norton also recommends turning off the System Restore (virus hide in these files
and cannot be removed).
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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re: no icons or taskbar on startup
Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 1:13 pm
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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re: no icons or taskbar on startup
Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 2:00 pm
Posted by RanK
(1 messages posted)
It took me a while to find all the pieces of this trojan/spyware/adware but here's
a list of steps to remove it
http://geekatwork.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_geekatwork_archive.html#107032650161440135
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re: no icons or taskbar on startup
Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Posted by Jacob Callahan
(2 messages posted)
I am having the "no taskbar on startup" problem. Norton failed to detect any virus
upon a complete scan of my system. It WAS found turned off when I first ran it.
I also ran Housecall with the same result; "no viruses found". The Geek@work link
redirected me to another site where I could not find a way to search for the archived
file giving removal instructions for this virus. HELP! What do I do now?
On Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 2:00 pm, RanK wrote:
>It took me a while to find all the pieces of this trojan/spyware/adware but here's
>a list of steps to remove it
>http://geekatwork.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_geekatwork_archive.html#107032650161440135
>
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