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SOLVED on page 3! svchost.exe (during boot, especially)
Bubba Euler:
--- Quote from: Shane on May 30, 2014, 11:54:25 am ---Have you done combofix yet? There have been a TON of times where combofix was the only thing that found and cleaned anything. Just make sure to do a registry backup first :-)
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
Shane
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I will do this! Tweaking.com's Windows Repair has a wonderful Registry Backup service! Thank you, Shane!!!
Bubba Euler:
--- Quote from: Bubba Euler on May 30, 2014, 01:26:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Shane on May 30, 2014, 11:54:25 am ---Have you done combofix yet? There have been a TON of times where combofix was the only thing that found and cleaned anything. Just make sure to do a registry backup first :-)
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
Shane
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I will do this! Tweaking.com's Windows Repair has a wonderful Registry Backup service! Thank you, Shane!!!
WOW! WOW!! WOW!!! ComboFix did it!!!! It did give about a 5 minute fuss over "AutoRun Eater", however. ~~~Ha~~~! BUT, the boot time was back to normal and the SVCHOST.EXE was so short I didn't even see it using CPU time. I did not have the chance to write down the programs/.exe that ComboFix deleted, but I'm going to find them (log?) and post them for y'all.
Wow. Whew. Golly, geewhiz. I am so thankful. Oh, and not a flicker from the DARK Screen on this re-boot. What fun and what relief.
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Shane:
Good to hear it is fixed :-)
The it was a rootkit or infection that was doing it and once again combofix was the only one to find it, man I would love to talk to the fellow programmer of that tool lol
Shane
Bubba Euler:
--- Quote from: Shane on May 30, 2014, 02:36:49 pm ---Good to hear it is fixed :-)
The it was a rootkit or infection that was doing it and once again combofix was the only one to find it, man I would love to talk to the fellow programmer of that tool lol
Shane
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I'd be a fly-on-the-wall...
Combofix downloaded to the desktop. Couldn't find any logs or files, since it wasn't installed, per se. I need to post the files that were causing the consternation!?!? As I recall, there were three. Maybe, four?!? They disappeared quickly, as it were.
Where would these deleted files (remnants ?) be located so that I can post them for other users?
Shane:
The log file is normally on the root of the C: drive :-)
Shane
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