Disinfecting a PC… part 3

Picking up from last time... AVG was failing to install with a peculiar registry error. (Which I didn't see much reference to online.) OK, so here is another fruit of the online search (so many bugs to identify...)

jawa32.exe is listed as spyware.seekseek in sarc's database.

OK - let's see if we can kill of some of these suspects... it's time for a couple cycles of ctrl-alt-del to remove running processes that look suspect, followed by msconfig - disabling of processes running at boot, reboot, repeat.

That's a process that's not always successful, many bugs are pretty quick to relaunch or rewrite entries in the startup areas. Fortunately these were pretty quickly vanquished and I felt like I actually had a foothold of sorts on the system. The failed antivirus install was still troublesome though. Maybe I should scan the registry. (Start, run... )

Try running scanregw
not found
(??)
regedit
not found
(!?!?!?)

Bad sign...

Start browsing... find...
c:\windows\regedit.exe_ and c:\windows\scanregw.exe_ rename and run - registry scanned and fixed, reboot.

Install AVG - successful. Update AVG from a downloaded update (and burn to disc) and start a full scan. We're still not connected to the network. At this point in the process we're still using utilities from discs and copying log files to floppy disc.