Having Trouble with Spybot S&D

Press F8 at a certain point in your computers boot.

This certain point is where the bois "stops" and windows takes over, pressing it a number of times won't hurt.

You will get a menu with a cuple of choices including safe mode.

Ok, ive jus tried that and i can get to the menu but no further that that. :fpissed:

Clarefy that please.

The way I read this it looks as though you don't know how to use that menu.

Oh sorry. I can get to the menu but when i press 3 for safe mode and press enter my computer then goes and turns itself off.

Did you get any kind of error ?
How far into booting does it get before it shuts down?
Have you tried booting to command line from that menu ?

Can you think of anything else that would help us help you ?

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Alway's give as much info as possible (relevant that is)

when i try to run safe mode it shows the windows logo screen when you turn the pc on normally and then shuts down,

Ive tried to boot the command line but i have to put a file path in and i dont know what to do.

All i know is that wininit.exe has something to do with the problem even though i removed it and when i try to load windows it says

''mode select code page function completed

C:/windows/wininit.exe

Press any key to continue''

and after i press a key it shuts down.

Is removing wininit.exe the cause of the problem? To me it seems it is.

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Have you tried starting the System in SAFE MODE..?
from there you can run the system file checker..SFC.. but being Win98 you may have a problem if you need to get any files from the OS CD.. but ONE STEP AT A TIME..
Can you start in safe mode?

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It seems you can't boot info safe mode.

From what i read deleting Wininit.exe caused the problem of not being able to boot.

So we need a new one. A little google searching gives us this. click

We need the wininit.exe program

and it needs to go here. c:\windows\system.

You do the rest of the math.

[Und3ertak3r] Sysinfo has a startup list and BHO list, but it is very outdated. A better one can be found at Computer Cops..Metallica and Tony Klein keep the BHO list updated, and I can't rememebr who keeps up the startups list. If you go to CC's home page, those pages can be accessed through the menu on the left side.

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We need the wininit.exe program

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Unless I have completely missed something, why would you want to put the virus back??

In your Win.ini file, which you can now no longer get too, you will have an entry:
load=C:\WINDOWS\WININIT.EXE
Which needs to be removed, or you will continue to have the problem. A boot disk is in order. Once you get booted into a command prompt, then type in the following:
edit c:\win.ini
Remove the line, and save your changes, and see if you can boot properly then.

Wininit.exe is a normal file and not a virus. It is however booted by default making it a target for a lot of trojans and viruses.(xabot worm )

If we place the file from the original cd back the problem should be solved.

Ok ive been on google and found a page that helps to solve the problem but im not sure how to extract the file from the cd, can someone give me a step-by-step guide if anyone knows how?

I just tried to edit wininit.ini but when it opened there was nothing in it.