Greetings and Salutations!

I'm Don. I have been building white box computers since 1994. My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a tape drive. I bought the floppy drive when that came out. I still have it all...
The more Microsoft updates their operating systems the more problems we have using them. I also use Linspire and would only use that if there were as many programs available as for windows.
I am here to find help with a problem I have spent 3 days on without finding a cure...

 

explorer keeps shutting down in WindowsXP

Actually, PeteC I found the answer by searching your forums.

The thread posted by litlpunk a week ago had a reply from Geri instructing them to use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
I downloaded it and ran it and it fixed the problem:
The computer would boot load explorer and start on the prefetch then shut down - no desktop. It would repeat this every few seconds until explorer would no longer start at all. The only thing that would work was WTM. I used it's run option to gain access to the harddrive and programs. I ran spy-bot, adaware, SmitfraudFix, smitRem, HijackThis, windows malicious virus removal - none helped. Then the system wouldn't boot to normal or safe mode either. So I used the repair windows option from the set-up disk. It would boot to normal but not safe - and the same thing was happening. Reinstalled SP2 - zip, got SP3 and loaded that - nothing...then got Malwarebyte's from your thread and bingo! It found urqRKDUU.dll infected memory module, 8 registry keys with Vundo.H, Trojan.Agent, Rootkit.Agent and FakeAlert; 2 registry data items also with Vundu.H; 11 files infected: system32: urqRKDUU dll, ini and ini2; tdssl.dll, tdssadw.dll, tdssmain.dll, tdsslog.dll, tdssinit.dll, tdssservers.dat and tdssserv.sys; plus windows\ateqoflr.exe
Had your forum come up sooner in my google searches it would have saved me about 24 hours of work...thanks!
Don