Need help! Virus/trojan

[DavidR]

@dlish1 post:6

I only have one anti-virus operating at a time but use AVG free edition & Avast free, I tried reasigning the JPEGS, the JPEGS are associated to windows picture & fax viewer. I’ve tried adding a screenshot hope it works. Thanks for all your help and advice.

That isn’t good enough as both resident scanners will load virtual device drivers on boot, even if you only use one at a time, disabling isn’t enough.

@dlish1 post:7

I’ve just executed another virus scan using avast and it found an infection it was unable to clean, it was shown as follows:- F:\Documents and Settings\DKK\Desktop.…\CMDOW.EXE. don’t know if this helps?

See http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/ If you installed this it is a tool which can be used for good or evil and avast doesn’t know the intention.

@dlish1 post:9

If there was an intercept on the jpg files as you suggest, how could I fix it?? I tried reassigning the file association following your instructions but it I still can’t open any jpg file?

An intercept works in a similar way to the file allocation when you click on a file windows needs to know what program to open it with, this is the file association and is stored in the registry, but you can use the the Interface that I gave to change it rather than have to manually edit the registry.

Since you still seem to have an association with windows picture & fax viewer, I wonder if there is a problem with that program, does it open and view other image file types, like .gif ?

You could try IrfanView http://www.irfanview.net/, which is a great little image viewer which can view many more image file formats that any other that I know. It also has basic image editing function.

Edit:
Try a visit to http://www.dougknox.com/index.html, look at the menu on the left, Win XP Fixes, then File Association Fixes in the right window and finally download the JPE/JPG/JPEG Association Fix a direct link to the zip download, http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/xp_jpg_jpe_jpeg_file_assoc_fix.zip.