Admin Priv

[Johzen]

Hey guys

I need help with my computer, both of my users became standard after making it admin everytime.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello.


If you are very specific about the issue(s) you are having perhaps someone will have some suggestions for you.

 

[Johzen]

I think som1 editteed ma post...

Anyways, somebody pro-rat'd ma computer, now I don't have any Admin privileges.

 

[Johzen]

BUMP

My admin priv was taken away from me

How do I fix this please

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Who / what took your admin away?

With the small amount of information you are providing, you are making it very hard to help you.

Without more, complete information we can't help you at all.

 

[Dwarf]

Is this your home machine or a machine you use at work (and has been provided by them)? If it is a work machine, then they have the right to determine what kind of user accounts you can access on their computer. They also have the right to revert it back if you manage to change it. If this is the case, we cannot help you and you will need to speak to someone in your IT department instead.

 

[Johzen]

It's mine :\

It all happened, when I opened an executable file, don't ask me for any details of this executable file cuz I've done everything to remove it(even in my head).

That's when things went wrong. I can't access Windows Security, Task Manager, Run as Admin, etc.

I tried running a scan with Kaspersky, but it takes yeeeeeaarrs to scan, I left it for a day it went from 0 - 8%??

So yeah, that's all.

 

[Dwarf]

Sounds like some form of malware. It's a pity you can't remember the name of that executable, as it may have given us some pointers as to the cause of your problem.

I'm going to ask one of our security experts to have a look - when she replies, follow her instructions to the letter.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Sounds like some form of malware. It's a pity you can't remember the name of that executable, as it may have given us some pointers as to the cause of your problem.

I'm going to ask one of our security experts to have a look - when she replies, follow her instructions to the letter.

While we're waiting for her expert advice, see if you can install and run a full scan with the malware scanner at the link below from safe mode and be sure to let us know how it sorts out.

Malwarebytes Free Virus Scanner

 

[DeaconFrost]

If you find yourself spending days trying to get it resolved, I'd probably consider wiping the drive after backing up my data and then doing a clean install. That's always a last resort, but a clean fresh install takes me two hours...so it will lead me to a resolution faster than spending days hoping for one.

 

[Jacee]

Download DDS from one of these links:
Mirror 1 Mirror 2 Mirror 3

• Disable any script blocking protection
• Double click the dds icon to run the tool.
• When done, DDS will open two (2) logs:
  1. DDS.txt
  2. Attach.txt <--this will be minimized in the task tray
• Save both reports to your desktop.

Include the contents of both logs in your new topic.
The scan will instruct you to post Attach.txt as an attachment.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Here's the information on a complete wipe of the Hard Disk Drive.


After you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to save to external media, use Step One of this tutorial at the link below to do a wipe (secure erase) to the entire Hard Disk Drive / Solid State Drive.

• Then if you do not want to create the new Windows 7 "System Reserved" partition use the outline in Step Two #2 to create, format and mark Active a single 100GB partition to do the installation to.
• If you do want to create the "System Reserved" partition use the outline in Step Two #3 to create, format and mark Active the System Reserved partition and then create and format the 100GB partition to do the installation to.

Either way, running the "clean all" then creating and formatting the partition(s) using diskpart will get you the best possible space to do a clean install of Windows 7 to; you can always extend the Windows partition to include the remaining unallocated space on the HDD / SSD or create additional partitions after the installation completes if you choose.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

DISKPART : At PC Startup

Do a Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version

 

[Johzen]

If you find yourself spending days trying to get it resolved, I'd probably consider wiping the drive after backing up my data and then doing a clean install. That's always a last resort, but a clean fresh install takes me two hours...so it will lead me to a resolution faster than spending days hoping for one.

I've already formatted it was still their.

I dont think wiping would do much...

I'll try the MalwareBytes.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

A format does absolutely nothing ...

Have a look at what a wipe actually is at this link. secure erase

   Note

Contrary to popular belief, doing a format with Windows 7 does not remove any data at all, it just checks for sector errors and marks the space to be over-written as needed, all the data is still there including all the code from previous/failed installation attempts.

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[Johzen]

Takes time though... Ama try after I scan.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Takes time though... Ama try after I scan.

Do you want to have a clean Windows or do you want to continue to have issues.

 

[Johzen]

U Sure this aint gonna remove none of ma faaaaayyllllsss?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

It will over-write everything on the entire HDD, that's the whole idea, it's all infected anyway.


Make back-ups of anything you need to save to external media first and do good malware scans of the data before you add it back to the new installation.

 

[Johzen]

I can live with Viruses

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Suite yourself.