I was browsing some ign videos and suddenly ie pops up and goes away in an instant, then it returns showing whether I had firewall/ie/...
When I wanted to close it I get a message if I wanted to bookmark the page
When this stuff happens I click ctrl-alt-del to finish off ie
But I can't!
(btw, I did nothing that even remotely resembled to open ie :S)
Btw, I have XP SP2 and the latest windows updates
The message says that the taskmanager has been disabled by the administrator (something which I would never do! AND I'm the only one who used my computer in like 2 weeks)
Edit: Scanning for viruses now
Eh, Ben?
It basically claims that your installer is a trojan...
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Oh, yes, a recent avast! update claims that installers created with Inno Setup contain a trojan. I first noticed it with the installer for PCSX2. I'm convinced it's a false positive.
As for a fix for your problem; System Restore might help, but if it's a virus it might have infected that too (it looks more like conventional malware, though). I assume you are running anti-malware software (eg Windows Defender)?
As for the task manager problem; dig out HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and set DisableTaskMgr to 0.
This is why running as administrator is a bad thing, and why Vista's UAC is a good thing.
As for a fix for your problem; System Restore might help, but if it's a virus it might have infected that too (it looks more like conventional malware, though). I assume you are running anti-malware software (eg Windows Defender)?
As for the task manager problem; dig out HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and set DisableTaskMgr to 0.
This is why running as administrator is a bad thing, and why Vista's UAC is a good thing.
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I believe it's the same principle here. Someone releases a trojan packaged in a Inno Setup installer; avast! doesn't know how to inspect the contents of the installer package and so flags all vaguely similar packages as being problematic. farbrausch's EXE packer will then suffer a similar fate.Dwedit wrote:I remember when Avast once marked one of Farbrausch's demos as a troken.