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Hi,
I just got sent a program by someone over msn they tricked into thinking it was something usefull when actualy the program disabled the task manger on my account although set as computer adminstrator i tried running taskmgr.exe but it looks like it has been set as a system policy becuase when running that it says "Task manager has been disabled by your system administrator" i dont how i can fix it? have you got any ideas? your help would greatly be appreciated!
Thanks,
Alex

Please help if you can

Use the attached file to re-patch your Registry.

More info here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Taskmanager_error.htm

Thanks for all your help it worked!!!!

You sound surprised...

So would you if you were that stupid hehe...
He either recieved the file from a VERY evil friend who deserves something nasty in return, or he was silly enough to run a file from an unknown person.

A friend's laptop had the same thing on the weekend. After a lot of hours mucking around with Spy Sweeper, Norton, and googling like no tomorrow I managed to stop the damn thing. Do you also have a red circle with a white cross inside saying you need SpySheriff to stop your detected problems? Annoying little git...

Even so, with it all seemingly gone away I have noticed it accessing the net almost continiously. A net traffic monitor seemed to give no information, but can someone point to a good program for monitoring network traffic? Spy Sweeper seems to be denying access to automatic requests (nobody on PC for ages) to sites like flowgo.com and the WWE main site by the look of it. Not much can be googled on it by the look of it. Managed to find some netshop thingy that has little or no information online (suspicious running exe brings up one site only - just one - and that indicates installing a program to apparently remove it). Hopefully Spy Sweeper will catch up soon.

Also is anyone using SpySweeper 5.2 beta? The one with the virus sweeper built in? Any good? My Norton will run out soon, and would be nice to keep everything in one program. And SpySweeper has beaten everything else so far when it comes to Spyware. Latest MS one (defender?) found nothing on my laptop recently, whereas SpySweeper found dozens, and a couple of the others (SpyBot for example) found almost as many as Sweeper.

Cheers

Oh yeah, and I also used a registry hack to get the alt-ctl-del back. Almost as good as that one a while back that stopped that plus updates to SpySweeper, plus downloading anything from the net. Evil b**tards. Nothing cunning, I just downloaded SpySweeper updates on another PC and nuked the f**ker. Got me for a bit though.

You know Lycos' idea of basically bombarding confirmed Spam sites with *loads* of network traffic was genius. Shame they stopped it thanks to PC (politically correct) people. Would be nice if someone made one for sites confirmed to be spreading Ad-ware. Especially if no-one has fully confirmed it is ad-ware but everyone knows it. Which is basically all I found for this latest thing. It's very close to being declared full ad-ware, but actually is in a grey area. Apparently. Would be nice for a Lycos type application..... See you later SOBs.... We could use that big red button used on this forum to start the attack! Yes... they deserve to die..... Or be taken to court by the millions of people who lost hours of time to this sort of thing.... yes... yes... (you can sue for hot coffee and s**t, so why not this?)

Cheers