Acreo Aeneas
New member
Hey all,
I've been a supporter of Spybot S&D and have been using the program for a long time now. Great work to all those involved.
Getting down to the problem at hand...
2 days ago, I finished building my brother's new pc. I installed Windows XP along with all the patches and service packs. I then installed the correct drivers and such, along with Zonealarm Pro Security Suite, updated, rebooted, and such. Yesterday, when my brother got home, he turns on his new system, puts his various backed up files onto his new hard drive, then proceeds to reboot his computer.
This is where the headaches and trouble begins.
After POST, the usual Windows XP loading screen (w/ the scrolly bar thingy), it would attempt to bring him to the Windows Logon screen, but an error screen pops up that says: "Windows wasn't able to load winlogon.dll, please contact your system administrator if this problem persists." Seeing how he is the sysadmin, I went ahead and hit the reset key on the front of his system. It goes through the process and once again the same error message pops up.
This immediately set off several alarms bells in my head, and has me worried, frustrated, and pissed to the point where I'm loosing serious sleep over this problem.
So then I figure, I'll just reformat, and install Windows again with all patches and packs. So that was yesterday.
About 5 hours ago, I got a call from my brother (while I was traveling home), that his system once again had the same error. I instructed him to do a Windows Repair (from the blue screen not command prompt). Since the Repair, I have not seen that error pop-up, but common programs such as IE, Firefox, and such has been constantly crashing or hanging up. Also when I have the C:\Windows\System32\ folder open and have winlogon.dll selected, I instantly get a continuous pop-up window that says that Windows has detected several of its key components missing and replaced with unidentifyable duplicates. It gives me the option of OK to let Windows extract and replace those "key files" from a path that does not exist and also has something like this: "folder\folder_name/file" towards the end of the path. That seems too much of a random typo, so I clicked the red "X". A new window pops up asking if I'm sure I want to not fix the files, I click YES. The pop-up window goes away, then reappears about 5 seconds later.
I have run Ewido in Safe-Mode (w/ log file), and HijackThis v1.99.1 (w/ log file). I will post a reply with both log files. Right now I need to go over to his system to make the log post, because I'm afraid that this problem is occuring on another system as well. I'm trying my best to quarantine his system from the network by unplugging his ethernet connection when internet access is not needed.
I've been a supporter of Spybot S&D and have been using the program for a long time now. Great work to all those involved.
Getting down to the problem at hand...
2 days ago, I finished building my brother's new pc. I installed Windows XP along with all the patches and service packs. I then installed the correct drivers and such, along with Zonealarm Pro Security Suite, updated, rebooted, and such. Yesterday, when my brother got home, he turns on his new system, puts his various backed up files onto his new hard drive, then proceeds to reboot his computer.
This is where the headaches and trouble begins.
After POST, the usual Windows XP loading screen (w/ the scrolly bar thingy), it would attempt to bring him to the Windows Logon screen, but an error screen pops up that says: "Windows wasn't able to load winlogon.dll, please contact your system administrator if this problem persists." Seeing how he is the sysadmin, I went ahead and hit the reset key on the front of his system. It goes through the process and once again the same error message pops up.
This immediately set off several alarms bells in my head, and has me worried, frustrated, and pissed to the point where I'm loosing serious sleep over this problem.
So then I figure, I'll just reformat, and install Windows again with all patches and packs. So that was yesterday.
About 5 hours ago, I got a call from my brother (while I was traveling home), that his system once again had the same error. I instructed him to do a Windows Repair (from the blue screen not command prompt). Since the Repair, I have not seen that error pop-up, but common programs such as IE, Firefox, and such has been constantly crashing or hanging up. Also when I have the C:\Windows\System32\ folder open and have winlogon.dll selected, I instantly get a continuous pop-up window that says that Windows has detected several of its key components missing and replaced with unidentifyable duplicates. It gives me the option of OK to let Windows extract and replace those "key files" from a path that does not exist and also has something like this: "folder\folder_name/file" towards the end of the path. That seems too much of a random typo, so I clicked the red "X". A new window pops up asking if I'm sure I want to not fix the files, I click YES. The pop-up window goes away, then reappears about 5 seconds later.
I have run Ewido in Safe-Mode (w/ log file), and HijackThis v1.99.1 (w/ log file). I will post a reply with both log files. Right now I need to go over to his system to make the log post, because I'm afraid that this problem is occuring on another system as well. I'm trying my best to quarantine his system from the network by unplugging his ethernet connection when internet access is not needed.
