Hi Ben.
I forgot to say... I did get rid of that entry by a roundabout route ... I have a dual bootconfiguration. The fault is in XP, but I was able to eradicate the actual file by booting to Vista and running AVG antivirus. This freed up XP and allowed me to delete the entry with HJ.
Here's...
Hi Ben
I'd already fixed the main problem before seeing your post,
but here out of interest is the hijack this log. I had tried to remove the offending reference to owdckdqi.dll
using HijackThis, but the virus blocked it.
Hi Trana - I will do that asap. First I have to find somewhere to back...
Thanks Goombawaho and Simon
Autoruns is a brilliant program.
I undid what I did with msconfig and then found the unwelcome dll with Autoruns.
I used Autoruns to automatically open regedit and find the entry for the dll.
Simon, it was where you said - I'd missed it.
So now I'll delete it from...
I couldn't find anything directly suspicious in the Registry, but thanks for the idea. It was very helpful, and for the first time I have some idea what I'm looking at in the registry. -Never really understood it before. I'll have a more thorough look tonight.
I could perhaps backup the...
1. After remedying a horrible virus, i was still getting a messagebox at startup: 'Cannot find pwdckdqi.dll' (or similar)
I disabled the message using msconfig.
Then I got reminders at startup telling me that msconfig was in analysis mode., so I stopped them showing by checking the don;t show...
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