I’m going to add to this, (I’m on a different laptop by the way) Just opened IE9 on the offending laptop, clicked on ANY of my favourites and am taken to site without problem. HOWEVER, when I click the HOME icon, I immediately get the red warning box…
Download ComboFixfrom here and save it to your Desktop.
If you are unsure how ComboFix works please read this guide carefully. note: ComboFix must be downloaded to your Desktop.
Temporarily disable your AntiVirus program.
If you are unsure how to do this please read this Instruction.
Run ComboFix. Click on I Agree!
ComboFix will check if there is a newer version of ComboFix available.
Click Yes if prompted to download.
ComboFix will display DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY ON SOFTWARE.
Click Yes to allow ComboFix to continue.
If Recovery Console is not installed, ComboFix will offer download & installation.
Click Yes to allow ComboFix to install Recovery Console.
When the tool is finished, it will produce a log report for you. (typical location: C:[b]ComboFix.txt[/b] )
Attach log reports ( ComboFix.txt) back to topic.
Gone into panic mode now, followed to the letter, the instructions on performing ComboFix - report was duly issued, have saved it. I’m typing this on my laptop, I tried to open IE9, got RED window
c:\Program Files (x86)Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion.
Then tried to run as you requested another aswMBR scan, and got this:
C:\Users\Petes-lsppy\Downloads\aswMBR.exe Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion.
Clicked ok to both, then got:
It might have been moved, renamed or deleted. Do you want to remove this item? I clicked NO
HELP!!! Should it be doing this? I can only seem to open images…
Hi Magna, many thanks for coming back to me. OK. Performed a restart. IE9 HAS OPENED!!! So has Chrome… just tried it to see. ANYWAY Enough waffling. Attached is that ComboFix txt file.
OK magna, thanks. File attached. Red warnings are NOT appearing in IE9 any longer however when I just tried navigating from this thread to the d/l a fresh copy of aswMBR.exe, |I got the Explorer has stopped working window. It did this 3 times. The first time it spontaneously closed. The other 2 times I clicked no don’t find a solution (or whatever it was…)
[*] Be sure to disable your security programs
[*] Double click on the file to run it (Vista and Windows 7 users will have to confirm the UAC prompt)
[*] A small window should open on your desktop
[*] if an unknown bootcode is found you will have further options available to you, at this time press N then press Enter twice.
[*] If nothing unusual is found just press Enter
[*] A .txt file named MBRCheck_mm.dd.yy_hh.mm.ss should appear on your deskop. Please attach logreport here
I could ONLY post these 2 attachments by hitting alt+s - everytime I hit post, it went to an error window…saying connection to Avast forum failed contact your IP support