hi,
I had the same problem as you have described, it started when I clicked on a link appearing in the yahoo messenger window of a friend, actually, the link had appeared there because his computer might have been infected with the virus.No sooner did I click the link, my PC was also infected and lot of IE windows started popping up, I cleaned the virus using AVG and also the spyware with Norton Anti spy (downloaded with yahoo toolbar). It had disabled regedit also. Which was enabled by using a toggle regedit tool.A few more tweaks were needed in the registry to set my browser right and prevent redirections.Th en I realized that, it had gobbled up my run command as well and all the symptoms as u have mentioned,Final ly here is how I made it allright:-
go to C:\windows\syst em32 and click on gpedit.msc, this will open the group policy editor. Now, drill down to User Configuration-->Administrati ve templates-->Start Menu and Taskbar.
Find "Remove run from start menu".This would be displayed as "Not Configured". display the properties by right clicking it.Disable it once and then make it Not Configured again.Now you should find run in start menu.
can't live without run! ;-)
hope it helps..
Manoj
I had the same problem as you have described, it started when I clicked on a link appearing in the yahoo messenger window of a friend, actually, the link had appeared there because his computer might have been infected with the virus.No sooner did I click the link, my PC was also infected and lot of IE windows started popping up, I cleaned the virus using AVG and also the spyware with Norton Anti spy (downloaded with yahoo toolbar). It had disabled regedit also. Which was enabled by using a toggle regedit tool.A few more tweaks were needed in the registry to set my browser right and prevent redirections.Th en I realized that, it had gobbled up my run command as well and all the symptoms as u have mentioned,Final ly here is how I made it allright:-
go to C:\windows\syst em32 and click on gpedit.msc, this will open the group policy editor. Now, drill down to User Configuration-->Administrati ve templates-->Start Menu and Taskbar.
Find "Remove run from start menu".This would be displayed as "Not Configured". display the properties by right clicking it.Disable it once and then make it Not Configured again.Now you should find run in start menu.
can't live without run! ;-)
hope it helps..
Manoj
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