After entering into an admin account off my friend's computer (on Windows XP Home SP1), a dreaded blue screen appears with this error message:
A fatal error in IE has occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01) + 00010E36. Error caused by Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c
*System cannot function in normal mode...please check your security settings
*Scan PC with antivirus/spyware remover programs to fix problem
All I can do is get into task manager while the blue screen is up. I tried booting into safemode but that hangs right after logging in. And I tried repairing windows (not through recovery console) but that doesn't work either.
After searching around, people with this same problem usually post their HijackThis log and go on from there (or run the smitfraud.c cleaner), but I can't install/run those, let alone start any programs.
What do you knowledegable Neowinians suggest I do?
Edit: this virus/trojan seems to reside itself in wininet.dll and smss.exe...while I check task manager in the blue screen, smss.exe has already started up but I can't terminate it.
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laz
After entering into an admin account off my friend's computer (on Windows XP Home SP1), a dreaded blue screen appears with this error message:
A fatal error in IE has occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01) + 00010E36. Error caused by Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c
*System cannot function in normal mode...please check your security settings
*Scan PC with antivirus/spyware remover programs to fix problem
All I can do is get into task manager while the blue screen is up. I tried booting into safemode but that hangs right after logging in. And I tried repairing windows (not through recovery console) but that doesn't work either.
After searching around, people with this same problem usually post their HijackThis log and go on from there (or run the smitfraud.c cleaner), but I can't install/run those, let alone start any programs.
What do you knowledegable Neowinians suggest I do?
Edit: this virus/trojan seems to reside itself in wininet.dll and smss.exe...while I check task manager in the blue screen, smss.exe has already started up but I can't terminate it.
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