Empty Registry Keys

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by donut

I am starting to believe PC is infected w/script worm. Virtumonde trojan as was mentioned,PC.will not standby,or hibernate,just restarts when either is selected.
many desk top icons do not link to installed programs,icons just blank files ?.lnk
Thinking empty reg.keys,is cause.(unkown)for sure ? I have no reg.back-up. I did a partial sys. recovery,& installed windows to SP3,Office Outlook,IE-8,AVAST,to regain some functions but filled up 20% of my disk space in the effort. Have been through MSCFG,Add,& remove,older programs still exist,but are not linked,to desk top .lnk short cuts(Corrupted),damn
I hate that vague catch-all prase.HELP !

Damn, Virtumonde is one deadly bastard virus. I got infected I think 1 month ago (because I decided stupidly to disable my antivirus during online play) and got infected without even knowning it.
Once I stopped playing, gort back to the desktop and all the files had disapeared, the background was changed and the browsers were hijacked (even Opera !!).
I tried to boot into safe mode and repair but didn't work. As a last resort I copied all the important files on a secondary partition and reformated the primary partition.
First time I got infected in over 8 years.