Hey guys. First off, I am sorry but I could not find anything using the search function so here I am. I'm having some weird problems today. When I start my windows (xp 32bit sp3) I have to wait about 2 minutes for "User Name" in task manager to show my name under 'processes tab'. Other than that when i go into 'My Computer' it's a blank screen for about 2 minutes (same with the task manager user name problem) with that flashlight icon hovering around the folder thingy. Now, I don't have any programs loading up during startup except 'NvCpl' and 'smax4pnp', later being my sound card driver, and I could not spot anything out of the ordinary in 'Processes' tab in task manager. I'm trying to figure out what's causing this problem. The windows that I have is a fresh instal from less than a week ago and it is pretty clean. My main board is an 'ASUS Striker Extreme' with 2 ethernet ports, connected to one of them is my router. I know that router isn't the problem since I'm using another computer and I have perfect internet connection (Wireless connection). I have switched ports several times and it's the same story all over again. Now when I go into network connections I have 3 icons, '1394 Connection' which is irrelevant and 2 'Local Area Connections', 1 and 2. When I right click on any of them and click 'disable' nothing happens even with multiple trys. However, if I try to click 'Enable' the enableing box will open but nothing happens. I couldn't even shut down the windows as the blue goodbye screen kept on saying "Shutting down" or something so I had to shutdown manualy. It shuts down just fine if I don't enable the 'Local Area Connection'. That's it. Didn't think it would take this much explanation but I just wanted to make everything clear. I'll post my system specs if needed, though I feel that it is not necessary
It's running something hidden.. keylogger/rootkit something like that. I had a repair system came in last year showing the same symptoms.. SVV turned up 3 rootkits.. so I just wiped it because they were totally embedded in the ntoskrnl and came back after killing and removing.
