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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tyrannis on November 11, 2011, 02:48:47 PM
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Yesterday my computer suddenly stoped letting me log onto my full profile. Instead it logs me into a "temporarily" profile.
It keeps telling me that my files will be deleated from this profile and if i want to prevent this, i have to shut my computer down and wait awhile.
Ive done that, and still no change.
Is there anything i can do to salvage my profile? :cry
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sounds like a virus.......safe start.....run, Malware bytes.....
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Could be something corrupted also. Could also try error checking your drive.
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I'm with Ink on this one although I've never heard of or seen what your describing.
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I have had this happen. Different though, computer message saying something about not being able to get my profile and logs me in under temperary. The part about deleting though. That I have never seen.
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ive seen it.....at least very similar....I had a duel OS so signed into the other OS and removed the file that was causing it.....malware should find it though.
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If Malwarebytes doesn't find anything, try a system restore and roll it back to a date that everything was working correctly.
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DID TOO!!!
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try hijackthis!
if a system restore doesn't help you could run hijackthis and get the report!
Not sure if they're still around but bullgard allows you to use their software for a trial,they will supply support for this too. They suggest you run HJT and send them the report and will direct you to a solution.
Afew years back my system was taken over and part of an email bot,I was using norton so I thought I was covered.... :rolleyes: Turns out this bot setup house in norton in the quarantine folder,a subfolder called"quarantine" so norton all but ignored it.
I'm no expert but my machine was doing similar things when that bot was infecting it.
YMMV.
:salute
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This will fix it :)
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6676
Salute
Steely
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I've seen something somewhat similar on Windows NT back in the day, when the hard drive was full. So make sure your hard drive isn't full. But that's all the advise I've got. :(
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Ty
Once you have it fixed stay off of those tentacle websites okay?
Good luck little buddy :)
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This will fix it :)
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6676
Salute
Steely
It will not allow me to download it. It says there is a problem with the package.
A program run as part of setup did not finish as expected. Please contact your support personel or vendor.
I havent tried that run in safe mode way yet.
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That's kind of your only hope as I see it at the moment Ty...
Either that or a rip and rebuild.
I'd try shooting Gyrene, Gpwurzel, or Ink a pm to see how to recover your data if you can then do an R&R. Get some good virus protection, install Firefox with noscript and adblock, and watch where you browse and what email attachments you open from then on.
Bottom line is it sounds like you may have screwed the pooch and you might have to pay the piper.
Sorry man it sucks and I've been there and dealt with it when Squid and my ex stepped on their cranks.
Good luck regardless.
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It will not allow me to download it. It says there is a problem with the package.
A program run as part of setup did not finish as expected. Please contact your support personel or vendor.
I havent tried that run in safe mode way yet.
Have mirrored it here for you :
http://users.tpg.com.au/steelyj//UPHClean-Setup.msi
Make sure you have windows installer 2.0 installed (you should already)
Which OS are you running?
Steely
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That's kind of your only hope as I see it at the moment Ty...
Either that or a rip and rebuild.
I'd try shooting Gyrene, Gpwurzel, or Ink a pm to see how to recover your data if you can then do an R&R. Get some good virus protection, install Firefox with noscript and adblock, and watch where you browse and what email attachments you open from then on.
Bottom line is it sounds like you may have screwed the pooch and you might have to pay the piper.
Sorry man it sucks and I've been there and dealt with it when Squid and my ex stepped on their cranks.
Good luck regardless.
Just did a system restore. still no luck :cry
The safe mode option is my only hope. :uhoh
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Have mirrored it here for you :
http://users.tpg.com.au/steelyj//UPHClean-Setup.msi
Make sure you have windows installer 2.0 installed (you should already)
Which OS are you running?
Steely
Where can i find my OS? i admit, im not very computer savvy.
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To find out what operating system (os) you are running, hit start, type in winver in the little rectangle above, or click run then type winver and hit enter.
You will probably find your registry has been corrupted by something - I'd suggest starting in safe mode (f5, f8 - choose safe mode with networking) and running malwarebytes asap.
Wurz
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Your other option is to go into safe mode with networking, open a browser and click on the link Steely kindly mirrored for you.
Wurz
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Thanks G <S>
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Welcome D, as always brother ;)
Wurz
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If you have a spare puter and can download/burn cd's
Another option
http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal/rescue-cd (http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal/rescue-cd) This is a rescue disk with a virus scanner. It will burn itself to a cd, and you boot your computer with it - select the av, and run it. It works in a unix shell, so doesn't rely on any of the windows processes being available.
Wurz
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To find out what operating system (os) you are running, hit start, type in winver in the little rectangle above, or click run then type winver and hit enter.
You will probably find your registry has been corrupted by something - I'd suggest starting in safe mode (f5, f8 - choose safe mode with networking) and running malwarebytes asap.
Wurz
Is windows 7 my OS? thats what pops up when i did as instructed.
Microsoft windows.
Version 6.1(Build7601:service pack 1)
If it makes any difference, i DO have another profile on this computer. That profile is not affected at all. Its only my main administrator profile that is.
Ever since this temporary profile junk has started to pop up, ive been going on to the other profile a bit.
But now suddenly whenever i log on, a message pops up, saying that the administrator profile wishes to make changes to my other file, But it requires my password to do so.
Thats never happened before, and ive been denying it access.
I
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You have win7 home premium according to what you posted.
Is your other profile an administrator or a standard user? (can you change things, install things etc?)
If your usable profile is an administrator, I'd rename the other one, and delete it, retaining the files. Then create a new administrator profile. Be aware, if this is due to a virus or malware, your machine will remain infected, open to attack by downloaders etc and you will get hit again.
If you can download under your current profile, grab a copy of mse (microsoft security essentials - its free) and a copy of malware bytes (again, free) install, update and run them.
Once you clean them off your machine - move all your documents, films, music whatever to an external hard drive, and reinstall your operating system and drivers, programs etc - you will still be at risk if you dont.
Wurz