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i tried and it worked immediately thank you so very much

Posted by: jame-kenya at September 8, 2009 11:11 PM

i tried gpedit.msc, it worked but, my task manager has been disabled again.

Posted by: MJ at September 11, 2009 9:15 PM

Thanks very much it worked like magic. I Just finished installing windows after installing all the software task manager was disabled but thanks to you i have it back

Posted by: Collins at September 12, 2009 1:00 PM

tq...it's really helpful and simple =)

Posted by: wnay at September 13, 2009 3:08 AM

I have windows Xp professional sp2...
My task manager is disabled...I tried to your first step(gpedit.msc)....But i don't have a opition (ctrl+alt+del)in the system.How can i enabled taskmanager....

Posted by: John Athisayaraj at September 23, 2009 9:26 AM

I tired the 1st step and the GP policy is set to "Not COnfigured", even thou my task manager is disabled. I try to run 'regedit" and I get a message that it is disabled. It appears that the worm is much stronger for this solution, do you have any other fix?

Posted by: Ajith at September 24, 2009 7:15 AM

Looks like I'm the 2nd Paul here today. Thanks for making this easy to find!

In case this helps others:

While my AV (antivirus) software was seemed to have caught and removed a bunch of problems affecting my pc, it was stil catching a virus/trojan symtom. I still had trouble as some infected files (beep.sys, winlogon.exe) kept triggering my AV alerts. They apparently could not be un-infected.

I tried many changes and hacks, rebooting frequently, but the AV messages kept popping up every minute or so.

Running system restore to a day before the infection was reported by Windows XP to have "not worked", but the remainder of "rustok.r" infection is now gone.

But the damage of not being able to run Task Manager was still here until I found this article.

And then I could see nothing strage was running. Or so I think at this point!

Thanks again!

Posted by: Paul2 at September 25, 2009 7:47 PM

i can't open gpedit.msc with run
it says it is infected. can you help me?

Posted by: juan at September 28, 2009 5:52 PM

hi , my gpedit and regedit page is so disable !!!
i think its virus!

Posted by: hoda at October 5, 2009 2:35 AM

I TRIED ALL THE METHODS BUT OF NO USE.I HAVE WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2.WHENEVER I TRY TO OPEN THE GOOGLE SITE IT SAYS GOOGLE BANNED.TASK MANAGER IS DISABLED AND REGISTRY EDITOR IS OK.PLEASE HELP
I HAVE LATEST AVG UPDATES BUT IT DOES NOT DETECT ANY VIRUS
PLEASE HELP

Posted by: VIKRAM at October 23, 2009 6:17 AM

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