RegFilter/DLL initialization

Help!

For the past two days, my system has been so slow it hardly does anything anymore (it takes up to 10 minutes to open a Web page), my Norton anti-virus and internet security seem to have been "magically" disabled and each time I shut down the system, I get a box that pops up telling me "RegFilter.exe DLL initialization failed. "

What gives? Any ideas? Is this some new sort of virus that is wreaking havoc on my system and slowing everything down to a snail's pace?

Thanks in advance from a very concerned user...I appreciate any and all helpful suggestions.

 

From what I can gather by a quick google.com peek, this is related to Norton, possibly Norton's "Firewall security ". Regfilter.exe is tying up the cpu by using (98% to 100% of the cpu resources.)

At least I can point you in the right direction by suggesting you go to Symantec's support site and serach their knowledge base for your particular Product Version, using regfilter.exe as a keyword filter on your search quest.

This may envolve an unistall and a reinstall of Norton.

You can do a file find for regfilter and rightclick check it's properties and see if it's a Norton/symantec related file.

To check if it is, indeed tying up cpu, do a key combo of cntrl/alt/del for taskman. Check the processes atb ".

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In the mean time, this link and it's sublinks may help to better explain the problem. Note that the sublinks for Symantec are Norton version specific.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Win_Security/Q_20809601.html

 

Works great, thanks

Thank you for the help. Much appreciated. Uninstalled Norton IS, rebooted, then reinstalled the program. Works fine. Norton says this is a problem they're aware of, although they have no official explanation or fix.

Thanks for taking the time to help me out!