Hello.
As I was Cruisin the web, avast cought a virus/malware, “nvaux32.dll”,
So I sent it to the chest, then a second later it caught “kemnd”, both from the system32 folder, I hope I don’t need them.
I searched the registry for those and if I found anything I deleted it.
I think I did, can’t remember now ):=
So I immediately scanned with avast, then Windows Defender, then MalwareBytes, then liveonecare, then trendmicro free online.
nothing found.
So a day and a half goes by no reboot, then just sitting there on my desktop I luckily (I guess), seen a file pop on the desktop “a.exe” I scanned it avast said it was a virus/malware or something so I moved it to the chest, immediately another file “trz8d.tmp” popped on the desktop, same thing, then same thing “trz8e.tmp”, same thing then, “trz8f.tmp” then “trz90.tmp” then “trz91.tmp”.
That is all I have in the chect, I forget how I stopped this process, probably hit ctrl alt delete and found what ever it was and ended the task.
Then I go to my “msconfig” and I see something I do not recognize, but it might have been due to a bad shut down a couple days before, called,
“dumprep 0 -k” in the start up tab, the command was “%systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k”.
OH I also use Ccleaner.
So I decide I need to restart my computer, EVEN after I searched for this"nvaux32.dll", and read about it, I found some info on it and checked all the files and changes it was supposed to make and all that, and did not find one single thing they listed, they being whoever was familiar and at the top of the list, like mcaffee norton bleeping computer and whoever else, I visisted about 4 or 5 sites.
SO I reboot, and the computer “bios” says memory decreased or something, and would not boot past the windows loading and logo screen, and would just be in a continous reboot loop.
I posted elsewhere at ms knowledgebase.
I tried and failed at everything from resetting cmos, changeing memory, and could not boot to anything including safe mode.
But I noticed a extremely quick flash sometimes at the end of the trying to boot process at the black windows loading logo screen, REALLY FAST! 1/60th of a second to be exact.
I had to use a digital camera at 60fps in video mode and a bunch of tried to catch it.
then played it back luckily You can go frame by frame because it only shows up in one frame.
saying on a blue screen, something about error (code of numbers here) unable to locate user32.dll the application failed try reinstalling the app and try again and all that sort of thing.
So I loaded my XP CD started the recovery console and searched the drive and there was no user32.dll, after some research and trial and error I used the cd and recovery console to replace the user32.dll and here I AM.
but don’t do these commands “%systemroot%\system32” garbage they have never worked for me.
I simply did what I know, used the expand like everywhere said, but instead of “% signs and system root” I just told it “c:\windows"system32” and I am up and running,
SO AVAST might have saved my hard drive, time will tell,
but did not really save me.
I unchecked that dumprep in msconfig, but I am not sure if I should just delete it from the registry or not.
AND I am not sure what to do at this point.
Dang that was long.
or whatever else it may do.