diagnose my viris please

gerire

Was on my laptop yesterday. Eeepc xp. Was watching the golf and noticed avg was taking longer than usual to do its update.
The windows warning saying no av was installed came up. I open avg and it is just finishing the update and asks me to reboot. I do this when I re-open windows barely any services are running. Bar the networking services.
Any application I try to open pops up the 'open with' dialogue. To open an application i can right click and it wants me to 'run as' and if I select admin it will open the application.

While off line I ran avg complete scan which came up with nothing.
I downloaded and ran mcaffee's stinger which also showed up nothing.
I ran this in safe mode too, and nothing again
Eventlog does not show up anything spectacular. I'm going to try upload a picture of the system log which shows a 7026 error. 'the following boot-start or system-start drivers failed to load' and then a long list of system files all avg services

Apologies for formatting if this on mobile phone

http://m.flickr.com/photos/36625653@N04/6011521805/lightbox/

needadvi

Golf eh

lankz92

try maybe uninstall the anti virus, then reinstall?

something similar happened my friend, but nothing would start for him and things just got progressivly worse,

wat i done was started in safe mode, use system restore to go back a couple of weeks, then installed new antivirus and that cleared things up, dunno if this would be the same, but could be worth a try?

Monotype

That picture doesn't work but all your file associations are gone? Sounds like your registry has been messed up.

Switch to a different virus scanner to see if it finds anything, IMO.
Uninstall AVG and install Avast and Spybot S&D.
http://www.avast.com
http://www.safer-networking.org/

One thing to try is set up another user account on the computer to see if the associations work.

What I would recommend is do a rollback, if you have it enabled. Start menu -> Accessories -> System tools -> System restore. If you don't have any options or it doesn't work...

You could try a windows repair. Given that it's an Eee PC, you won't have a DVD/CD drive, so you'd have to get an image of windows on USB.

You'll be a bit more stuck if you can't install anything (associations with exe files gone), but you can work around it. Here's a site with the essentials.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm
You should start with zip first, then reg. Afterwards, you could just open the zip files and the registry files, unless you're cautious and want to have a look in each one.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

You'd have to sort out the rest yourself.

quaidox

this happened on a work laptop, we installed and ran malwarebytes antimalware and that fixed it for us.

gerire

quaidox wrote: »

this happened on a work laptop, we installed and ran malwarebytes antimalware and that fixed it for us.

This worked perfect 1st time. DL'd on my phone and transferred it over. Took a bit of playing about to get it installed a.d ran it without updating and keeping laptop offline. Found 45 issues.
Re-booted, and all programs opened. Updated,the software and re scanned another 1-2 issues. And I'm now back up and running. Thanks for your help, have a sick gf here who is now contented.

iMayne

Malware Bytes should do the trick. Just Google "malware bytes" and you will find it. It's really not free but the trial run will remove all spywares/malwares from off your laptop.

Edited: I should have read all previous post before commented. But glad malware bytes done the trick.