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winsrv. exe missing?!

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shooby

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I installed Service Pack 2, as well as run ad-aware and update my antivirus definitions last night. When I rebooted after doing all of these things, my PC just gives me the evil blue screen of death saying "winsrv.exe is missing, please reinstall the application" (something along those lines) What happened?!?!?! How can I fix it. I need help ASAP!!!!
 
winsrv.exe is part of a worm, here's the link:

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_OPASERV.Twinsrv.exe

Here's the two things I would try first:

1) Boot to some kind of PE environment and load up your registry hive. Search the registry and remove anything that references that file and the other relevant files discussed by the above link. Also under current_user and local_machine, navigate to your software/microsoft/windows directories, and remove anything you feel uncomfortable with in your Run and RunOnce directories.

That alone probably won't get your computer to boot, so...

2) Do a repair install. This is done by booting off your XP cd and going through the steps just like you were going to do a clean install. Don't jump off the boat too soon and go into the recovery console. When it comes up to the prompt where you generally would partition/format your hard drive, it will search for previous XP installs and ask you if you would like to repair your install.

Hopefully after the repair is done, you will be able to get your system up. First place you want to go is housecall.trendmicro.com and scan your system. Afterwards, AVG has an excellent freeware antivirus application. Hope this helps.

Edit: You might also have some luck with a bootable antivirus application. Norton antivirus (2005 I am sure) has this feature, and Mcafee has a current free beta of their "Cleanboot" application which does the same thing. Regardless, you might still need to do the repair install afterwards.
 
shooby said:
ok......putting in the Dell recovery disk will work too, right?
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Make sure it isn't going to just restore to factory default settings. If you got an operating system disk with it, boot to that and try the repair feature.
 
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