New Rundll32.exe Error Occurs every Second

**The_Silent_One_1** · August 27th, 2005, 03:42 PM

Hey,

I'm working on a computer right now that as soon as you open any kind of explorer window, you start being inundated with rundll32.exe error windows. I removed the hard drive and hooked it up to another computer, I then scanned with F-Prot Antivirus and SpySweeper. They found nothing at all. I had trouble uninstalling their Norton Internet Security 2005, so I hacked and Tore some of it out in the reigstry and then ran a Removal Tool. I then installed a trial version of Panda Titanium 2005. I updated and soon after it picked up a trace of spyware that it called Virtumonde. (Some kind of dll keylogger/adware/spyware that Panda claims is low-level threat) I tried an explorer window and the windows startred again. I restarted, problem still there. I did a full system scan but came up with nothing.

I should also mention that I scanned with hijackthis and removed a suspicious BHO...

I think that there was something that was tied to explorer that was partially removed but some obscure registry key tries to load it whenever a new explorer windo is opened and when it doesn't work it retries, and retries, and retires and ...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

**The_Silent_One_1** · August 27th, 2005, 03:45 PM

Oops,

Forgot to mention what window says

RUNDLL

Error loading C:\Windows\DLL~1

The specified module could not be found

I searched the registry for C:\windows\dll~1 but found nothing

**shamus** · August 27th, 2005, 05:26 PM

Try your anti-vir in safe mode. BTW, be sure to turn off system restore if your running WinXP.

**The_Silent_One_1** · August 27th, 2005, 06:19 PM

THanks Shamus, I didn't try that yet. I did run Hijackthis again and noticed the BHO back in there. I tried to remove several times but failed. I searched google for the jkhhh.dll, but no results. I tried in safe mode to remove it but no luck. I ended up removing the hard drive and removing the file from a second computer. I put it back in and got the same results... (MY FRICKIN RUNDLL WINDOWS !!)

Acutally though, is there much benefit to running a virus scan in safe mode when I've already run it on a second computer with the hard drive hooked up?