Re: Foreign language characters in some XP dialogues

Torgeir,
Again, thanks for the rapid response.

The PC already has SP2 applied.

I'm beginning to believe that the PC has been infected some new trojan/virus
as there is a process running which I'm unable to kill (wmiprvse.exe). This
does not show up under Task Manager, but is visible under Sysinternals
'Process Explorer' program. Although logged on as administrator, it says
"access denied". Sophos suggests that this is a worm variant that can be
fairly easily removed, but none of the online scanners detect anything at all.

Meanwhile, more and more of the XP dialogues are changing into the strange
foreign language, and even though I've disabled MSN Messenger, if the PC is
connected to the internet, it receives loads of strange MSN messages with
peculiar content (anything from "americans are 'Sh1t'", to something about
'arabs will win' plus other messages in the strange foreign language that I
don't understand).

It looks as if whatever is the cause has dropped a Remote Admin Tool into
the PC, allowing it control whenever the PC is online.

Once again, any help you can provide would be gratefully accepted. I'm
usually pretty good at cleaning out PC's of malware, but this one is giving
me serious headaches.

Regards,
Dave.


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