Essexboy Thank You!
What I'm trying to find out is whether or not my system has been compromised to the point of needing to reformat because of having found a trojan in Windows/System32.
Apitaxx was the exe part not Api2mdxx & I know they are legitimate. Glad to here it's clean! (The one button/prolific thing has been a mystery to me too for few months.)
A2 found that particular trojan twice. I spent six hours on a MS paid support call Friday trying to get rid of the Denial Access Error in MSCONFIG to no avail. We clean booted, advanced clean booted, & hardware clean booted--so needless to say I was out of selective service mode. We went inti Binaries>Msconfig & granted all groups permission. The error remains!
"System Configuration
An Access Denial Error was returned while attempting to change a service. You may need to log on as an administrator account to make the specified changes."
This happens when logged on as an administrator when I press OK or make changes in MSCONFIG. (It wasn't until I deleted the tojan that I was allowed to use MSCONFIG--after I was able to untick apitaxx from startup & use System Configuration again. (This is why I don't believe the trojan was a false positive.)
I was thinking about going into the registry today to see if HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SOFTWARE had an Administrator present/available. The MS tech wouldn't allow me to do this--beginning support guy! I sent my first email a year ago, I'm no tech--MS!!! It was also suggested I use djlizard's Dial-a-Fix to restore Permissions MS tech said no to this too! The program is Beta & I'm a novice. Whatcha think Essexboy?
Addendum: I've just come from Jotti. I'm not sure how you scan file at a time (was looking at TotalVirus scan earlier). Do I send atiptaxx.exe or Ati2mdxx.exe to them & how?!! What/how does one do this? Sorry for my newbishness! Thanks, Essexboy.
