Hi,
I am trying to fix my Cousin's laptop which seems to have some malware on it. He is running Vista on an Acer Aspire 5315 (2GHz Processor, 1GB Ram).
The problem I am seeing on this machine is that it is literally opening a new rundll32.exe every second until there are well over 100 of them running, there is no memory left and the machine grinds to a halt.
I am trying to install hijackthis and spybot but I am unable to even do that as the machine completely freezes before the install can complete.
I am at a loss as to what I can do as I have about 5 minutes of a slow machine before it completely freezes and all I am able to do is do a hard reboot.
All of the rundll32.exe files are running a *.mat file in the c:\Users\[Username]\Roaming directory. An example of one of these filenames is c00D200E.mat.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Cain
I am trying to fix my Cousin's laptop which seems to have some malware on it. He is running Vista on an Acer Aspire 5315 (2GHz Processor, 1GB Ram).
The problem I am seeing on this machine is that it is literally opening a new rundll32.exe every second until there are well over 100 of them running, there is no memory left and the machine grinds to a halt.
I am trying to install hijackthis and spybot but I am unable to even do that as the machine completely freezes before the install can complete.
I am at a loss as to what I can do as I have about 5 minutes of a slow machine before it completely freezes and all I am able to do is do a hard reboot.
All of the rundll32.exe files are running a *.mat file in the c:\Users\[Username]\Roaming directory. An example of one of these filenames is c00D200E.mat.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Cain