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[drmsucks]

Win 7 64 bit/Vista 64 bit, dual boot. Win 7 infected; will boot to desktop but nothing will run - .exe, .com, etc. None of the RKILL variants will run, SAS portable (.com) will not run. Ditto for Safe Mode.

Booted to the Vista side and ran SAS from there on the Win 7 disk (separate physical hard drives). Nothing found but cookies and adware. Currently running Avast from the Vista side on the Win 7 disk.

User (nephew) said that he "got a link from a friend" to watch the UFC fight for free - last Saturday, I presume. Fight ran fine but now nothing else will run.

Help!

[Broni]

Let me know if Avast will find anything.

[drmsucks]

Will do.

[drmsucks]

Nothing found by Avast.

Was going to try a boot scan but Avast has been disabled on the Win 7 (infected) drive.

[Broni]

See if you can run this on Win 7 to fix .exe issue.

Download and run exeHelper.

• Please download exeHelper from Raktor to your desktop.
  
• Double-click on exeHelper.com to run the fix.
  
• A black window should pop up, press any key to close once the fix is completed.
  
• A log file named log.txt will be created in the directory where you ran exeHelper.com
  
• Attach the log.txt file to your next message.

Note: If the window shows a message that says "Error deleting file", please re-run the program before posting a log - and post the two logs together (they will both be in the one file).

[drmsucks]

Won't run: .com & .exe & the RKILL.scr won't run.

[Broni]

What does actually happen when you try to run those files?
Any error messages?

[drmsucks]

"Nothing" happens and Task Manager doesn't show anything running.

No error messages - just "nothing."

[drmsucks]

Whoa - just tried regedit from the search box and it opened the registry.

Do you know where to fix the exe file association?

[Broni]

I don't work too often with dual boot, so I'm not sure if this is going to work...
Create following CD and see if you can scan Win 7 installation with it.

Let's see, if we can look at your computer booting from an external source.

Please download OTLPE (filesize 120,9 MB)

• When downloaded double click on OTLPENet.exe and make sure there is a blank CD in your CD drive. This will automatically create a bootable CD.
  
• Reboot your system using the boot CD you just created.
  
  • Note : If you do not know how to set your computer to boot from CD follow the steps HERE
• Your system should now display a REATOGO-X-PE desktop.
  
• Depending on your type of internet connection, you should be able to get online as well so you can access this topic more easily.
  
• Double-click on the OTLPE icon.
  
• When asked Do you wish to load the remote registry, select Yes
  
• When asked Do you wish to load remote user profile(s) for scanning, select Yes
  
• Ensure the box Automatically Load All Remaining Users" is checked and press OK
  
• OTL should now start.
  
• Press Run Scan to start the scan.
  
• When finished, the file will be saved in drive C:\OTL.txt
  
• Copy this file to your USB drive if you do not have internet connection on this system
  
• Please post the contents of the OTL.txt file in your reply.

[drmsucks]

Broni, on 27 September 2011 - 01:06 AM, said:

I don't work too often with dual boot, so I'm not sure if this is going to work...

I'll pull the plug on the Vista drive...

[Broni]

OK. If you want to try registry fix, unzip attached file and see if you can merge that file.

Attached Files

•  exe_fix_w7.zip   886bytes   7 downloads

[drmsucks]

Message said that "Merge was successful" but exe files still won't run.

Downloading OTLPE now...

[Broni]

OK. I didn't think exe fix would work.I
t looks like settings are fine. Something is just blocking exe files.

[drmsucks]

Nothing difficult is ever easy...

Booted from OTLPE disk, gets to the Win XP screen then ->Stop error 0x07B.

This computer has SATA drives - does the PE disk load SATA drivers?

[Broni]

Yes.

[Broni]

Try again.

[drmsucks]

Tried twice - same error.

Ran CHKDSK - no errors.

[Broni]

Check if you can boot another working computer with the CD.

[drmsucks]

Booted and ran on my computer just fine.

Trying the other one again now. Have tried with the Vista HDD disconnected and with both HDD's connected - both times same stop error. I'll be back in 5 min and let you know how this attempt goes...