Generic Host Process ... close

I've seen this issue around and don't know what to do in my case. Am running XP home on my workstation/lan gateway. Have recently gotten rid of an Agobot infection including a rootkit variation, not sure of the rootkit's name but it was found by TCS, Rootkit Revealer didn't find it.

My system is now quite stable, with the following problem. Get the box steadily after reboot saying

"Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. "

When I click on the box always end up having to reboot and then it comes up again. So 3 1/2 days ago I decided to ignore it and all has been well ever since.

A possibly related issue, and the only other problem am aware of on this machine is that I also lose the ability to navigate to my hard drives from applications such as textpad, firefox, and eudora, and can't click on links from eudora either. When I try - the app hangs and I have to terminate it and restart the app. My system remains stable. Also can't run task mgr.

The system comes up with everything working fine. Am posting here instead of the virus board because all my scans are running clean.

Marty

 

Hi Marty,

Yoy may find this tool usefull: Infiltration Recovery Tool http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=80567

If you decide to try it, give us some feedback on it.

Regards - Charles

 

I've tried it - only to re-enable task manager. Now instead of taskmgr coming up on the icon tray but not as a usable window I get a box that says

"Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator. "

FWIW, I am the administrator.

Marty

 

Hi Marty,

You should give the author feedback. I'm sure he'd like to hear about how this working or not working. He may have an idea of what the problem is.

At Wilders, you can post w/o registering.

Regards - Charles