sound like a corrupted file?

[x y u]

Two days ago my computer and i are getting along nicely. We're enjoying summer afternoons together enjoying each others' company. Suddenly, as if i said something wrong, the computer starts acting very very strange.

It starts slowing down, everything i do takes a few seconds to do it. Open IE....wait a few seconds then it pops up. Open my computer same deal. Then it happens...something most peculiar. Roxio CD creator 6 begins to try and reinstall itself over and over again. when i reboot, what is weird is not all my taskbar programs are loading near the clock at the lower left. (NVIEW, getright, norton, etc)

I've found a pattern for the install of Roxio CD creator. I'll give you an example. Lets say i want to move mIRC icon to the quicklaunch bar near teh start button. I right click, drag it down, (to get the "move here" dialogue to pop up) but before it pops up to ask me, the CD creator wants to be installed. I hit cancel to stop the install, it pops back up again, i hit cancel...etc. this continues for about 8 times. Then it'll stop and the dialogue for "move here, copy here, create shortcut" pops up. Never fails.

It started doing this just after I had installed a program called dr. Eye. (it's an english to chinese translater) I don't know if it was coincidence or not, but everything went haywire after that install. I've since removed the program, but now it is still doing this.

I have also deleted any known trace of roxio i can find, but it's still coming up to install it. perhaps its in the registery somewhere.

I've run Norton Antivirus 4. aslo did a scan with Spy Bot. Turned up nothing except Tracking cookies. no virus.

Can anyone help me out here? thank you!

 

[mosin]

Try HijackThis to see what you have. Also, did you update Spybot? It may be that you have to remove more stuff with regedit.
By the way, mIRC and IE are two words that don't go together.

 

[x y u]

Try HijackThis to see what you have. Also, did you update Spybot? It may be that you have to remove more stuff with regedit.
By the way, mIRC and IE are two words that don't go together.

I've just tried HijackThis but nothing out of the ordinary there, and nothing about roxio. I do have the updated spybot (1.3)

It's still entering the install loop and slowing down my computer.

 

[mosin]

Give us some versions. Which Windows, and which IE are you using?

 

[Ice Czar]

well for starters most malware these days if it manages to get past the AV to begin with will immediately disable or reroute it around an infection, and compromise the firewall

did you scan that install program with the AV before you clicked on the little .exe?

do a few online scans at Symantec and TrendMicro
and readup on how direct process attacks work
Id also recommend trialing TDS-3 and PortExplorer from that site
just to be sure (read the install.txt regarding installing to a nondefault directory)
and manually update the definitions (install instructions), to config TDS-3 >Configuration Button > Startup tab > Check all > Save
Scan Control Button > Check all except the NTFS ADS Streams > Load Scans in the top window > Start Scanning (it will peg you resources a nice time to take a break)

then if you come back clean, Id say its time to clean the registry

 

[x y u]

Ok. the Program that i installed was directly from the Retail disk. I highly doubt it was infected w/ anything.

Next. I just noticed something. It is not trying to re-install itself. It is saying that some feature in the computer needs a Roxio feature that is not comletely installed, please insert the CD. It then begins this loop. I don't understand though, because I dont' even have Roxio in my computer, and i have run Reg cleaner.

I have Windows XP pro service pack 1, 512MB RAM corsair xms, Intel 2.4B not o/c'd for now. Nvidia Geforce 4 ti4200. Newest IE + service packs.

I'm really thinking about just reformatting. Though i don't want to . because all my discs are at home. ><

i'm thinking about just going to regedit, then Find and typing in roxio or something and going through and deleting each one manually.

 

[Moto Guzzi]

See if you can "uninstall" the program you tried to install, then make sure it's complete directory is deleted on C_drive, also delete stuff referring to it in registry, then try again.

 

[x y u]

Everything that i can find is uninstalled. it was still doing it. Now, however i'm on a completely new problem. Windows will not boot at all. It loads up to the first windows XP screen (the black one with the little bar scrolling at the bottom) and it sits there for what seems like forever. Then after i've waited forever, it hits windows, blue screens right away then reboots. now i'm starting to think all of this is a hardware problem. I removed my ram stuck in a new stick, same thing.

when i try to run it in safe mode it starts loading the drivers and that list scrollls down. The one that looks like

Multi(0)raid(0)partition(1)C:\windows\system32\<xxx.dll

well all the drivers scroll down the list until it gets to

Multi(0)raid(0)partition(1)C:\windows\system32\<agp72a.dll or something like that. something agp. then it locks up and won't continue to go any further. I don't know if this is a video card problem or not. I don't have a spare vid card at the moment.

I'm thinking of just formatting but right now my computer is completely useless. i dont even know if i can format, haven't tried it. If i do, it sucks because i'll have no way of backing up my hard drive.

 

[Ice Czar]

your OS is on a RAID? What level? (though I could guess)
are you overclocked? or where you?
if so was the bus locked?

have you actually tested the RAM? (memtest86+)

at this point I agree, its likely a corruption problem
Id suggest you review >

and Im transfering you to Data Storage Systems

 

[x y u]

your OS is on a RAID? What level? (though I could guess)
are you overclocked? or where you?
if so was the bus locked?

have you actually tested the RAM? (memtest86+)

yeah i've tested the RAM it's ok. I'll try memtest86+ though. I was overclocked a while ago i'm running 2.4ghz B intel i was O/cing to 2.8ish. I lowered it back down a few months ago because the games i needed the o/c for, i was not playing.

I'm not on RAID, i have an ABIT IT7max mobo. newest bios/drivers.

 

[Ice Czar]

well as far as corruption goes
Corruption 101 covers the probability spread as Ive experienced it, and is a relatively good troubleshooter
for finding a root cause(s)

past that if there is no corruption you can identify there are invalid registry entries
(which often suffer corruption actually)