Installer starts everytime I boot my pc

[Vashan]

Hello!

I've installed a Trial Version of Demon Tools Pro yesterday.

After Setup the program runs fine. Then after I rebooted the installer starts again (?) and that kind of hangs my pc.
I can close it but only if I open up Task Mananger, because I can't use my mouse anymore to klick anything (??) After that I'm usually able to close the Task DemonToolsPro.

I've uninstalled DemonTools after that - I hoped that would work- but.. it didn't the installer stills starts everytime i boot.
then i Uninstalled the SPTD drivers. That didn't work either.

my system also hangs now when i shut down my pc. :-/
I often have to use reset to reboot...


What I've figured out for now. The Installer starts in:
E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\vashan\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp

however deleting that, didn't do anything. It's just there again after I reboot.


If anyone can please help me. This is really frustrating as I haven't got any problems with my pc before.

My PC:
Windows XP SP3 German.

If you need more information, please ask.


Vashan

[Blazkowicz]

Use msconfig to deactivate autostart.

[Vashan]

there is no entry for demon tools there?

[Blazkowicz]

Please post screenshot of startup tab in msconfig.

[Vashan]

[Blazkowicz]

And the missing entry on the screenshot would be?
Also try to disable all entries for testing purposes if it still starts. If no, then activate each step-by-step to check.
If yes, try checking Services tab.

[Vashan]

okay i've now deactived everything. Except Kasperky IS which didn't deactivate, no matter what I did. Should I try deinstalling KIS or is that pointless?

Also i've shown you all start up programms - there aren't any more on the picture...





Anything left to check?

[Blazkowicz]

OK, not necessary for Kaspersky.
Is something showing up in Services (Dienste) when all Microsoft services are hidden?

[Vashan]

No, there is nothing shown marked at all.




Okay, i tried to log into administrator - i hoped that perhaps another user account would work - but the daemon tools installer starts again.

Heres a screenshot of the temp folder with the Version of Daemon Tools. Perhaps that might be a problem...



Vashan

[Vashan]

I searched Registry for some possible entries: Nothing.
MSconfig didn't help - deactivated any process, service that's isn't needed by Windows.

I made a bootlog - still nothing out of ordinary...

How can that damn installer copy itself into my Temp folder and start, without Autostart, a registry entry, a programm entry and without a driver.

Where does it hide?

There must be an entry somewhere.


Anything left to check?

[Vashan]

okay I was able to solve this myself. i was looking in my Kaspersky Internet Security for suspicious programm acitivity and guess what: I found a very suspicious one. A programm that runs over 600x times and tries to change explorer.exe the programm was called Winscr.exe.
I found it in /Windows/system32/winscr.exe and I was able to delete it.

After that the installer doesn't start anymore - problem solved.

However, WHY IS THAT SO? and why the hell couldn't someone tell me that? It's your programm, damn it!

Vashan

[Copytrooper]

How would we know what kind of malware you've on your system, and what kind of issues it'd cause?

[A.Hecka]

Well, just to iron out those cases, what about a dt cleaner tool? Like the antivirus/internet security packages which have additional tools to remove the software completely, including all maybe leftover registry strings and so on. I guess this would be nice and only the developers know where exactly the changes while setting up the software are made.

Bad english, I know. Was in a hurry.

cu

[Vashan]

How would we know what kind of malware you've on your system, and what kind of issues it'd cause?

Malware, that's starting DT.... Don't you think that's a bit odd?

I got the problem after I installed DT, so what's the malware?

The program DT was behaving like one - that may be the cause of a bug - I don't know about that.