Brewology

I was searching for a hex color picker or evox skinning programs for the Xbox yesterday and came across a topic in a forum about just that. In the thread someone posted a link to their site where they had several of the evox skin editors and hex color pickers available for download. Well, the previous day I had updated my virus definitions and done a scan which came up clean and after downloading and running a few of the evox skinning programs my PC was unresponsive with an error message (I forget what it said). That is the only website I had been to on that computer yesterday, and those were the only programs I had used so I believe that is the source of the problem. Now when I turn on the computer I get the following message after logging in:



There is an “OK” button but clicking it does nothing and there is nothing else I am able to do at this point but hit the power button. I normally use Macintosh computers so I’m not well educated on how to handle viruses. I know there is something called “Safe mode” where you can somehow fix stuff like this, and I have a virus scanning application on the computer. A clean install of the OS is not exactly an option at this point as it is a work computer with a company desktop image and I’m not exactly supposed to be downloading programs on it. So I'd like to avoid loosing the apps on the desktop if possible. Like I said I'm a mac person and have little experience with PCs and how to use (or get into) safe mode, and aside from doing virus scans, I don't know how to remove them. Can someone please help me out here?

The problem is that I wouldnt be able to install this program since once im logged in I get the "The loader cannot find the ‘C:\DOCUME~\ken\desktop\SKINNI~1\EVOX_S~1.2\InstMsiW.exe’ file necessary to load the windows installer." error message and cannot do anything. Or am I suppoosed to burn this onto a CD and somehow boot from there? Do you know what the problem is from that message? Any other suggestions?

EDIT: I wanted to add something that might change the way this should be handled. I was told that it may not be a virus, but rather windows may be telling me that it is missing an install file for Evox Skinner, and that it is expecting something to complete the install procedure when windows starts up, but it isn't there. Does this sound fesable? What would I do if this is indeed the case?

Do system restore

always worls

speaking of which someone tried to attck my comp but failed and i got their ip address could someone hook me up with something to find out who did this i have their ip so yah.

Try here.

I got it taken care of. It wasnt a virus, rather one of the programs unpacked had an error while unpacking and two registry files needed to be deleted.

Start > Run > "regedit" ***
2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
2) SOFTWARE
3) MICROSOFT
4) WINDOWS
5) CURRENTVERSION
6) RUNONCE.
deleted "msiloadr_1232", and "msiloadr_1240"

I hate windows.

The fact remains that M$ has already taken over the world with windows and we are left with lil choice other than UGH Linux... (Samineru, no offence...)

Thanks it was someone in africa im kill em.

This is weird, I typed in my own ip adress, and it said I lived in United States, the Region was Hawaii, and that thing is screwed up because I live in Canada haha.
I don't think that thing is accurate lol.

It just tells you where your isp is, not necessarily the location of the computer, just a jumping off point of sorts.