Why would it happen due to one of the updates? Perhaps one of the updates
was the malicious software removal tool and it did its job in removing the
nasty, but the reference to it in the userinit value is still there.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Mark" <markxyz59@cox.net> wrote in message
news:43b80e82.15482078@news.east.cox.net...
> Hi Rick,
>
> But why would it happen during windows update? My wife had firewalls
> and AVG antivirus, and she's not prone to DL'ing strange files and
> visiting nefarious websites - at least as far I know
>
> I'll see if I can look at those files using the Rovery Console....
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:40:59 -0500, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
> <rick@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>>Right, this is typical of the Blazefind issue mentioned in the article I
>>linked to. Your passwords and accounts *are* being recognized and
>>accepted,
>>it's the userinit value that is screwed up.
>>
>>--
>>Best of Luck,
>>
>>Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>>"Mark" <markxyz59@cox.net> wrote in message
>>news:43b7ff03.11515359@news.east.cox.net...
>>> It's XP Home, and I guess I wasn't clear enough.
>>>
>>> My wife was doing windows updates, then the machine asked to reboot.
>>> She clicked "ok", and when it rebooted it brought up the usename and
>>> password window. When she typed in her account and password, it would
>>> log in, and then immediately save settings and logout, ending up back
>>> at the login window. All accounts on this machine do this. You type
>>> your password, up comes your personal backround for a sec, then it
>>> saves setting and logs you out.
>>>
>>> We got an XP Home Upgrade CD (I have no idea which computer it belongs
>>> to as we have five in the house). I was able to get the System Restore
>>> Console up from "boot from CD", and then login with "no password". Now
>>> we can "see" our files on C and D, but we cannot copy or access them.
>>>
>>> What should we do now? Are we completely screwed because windows
>>> update screwed up our password file? Or, is there something else we
>>> should try from the System Restore Console?
>>>
>>> Thanks...
>>>
>>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:09:53 GMT, markxyz59@cox.net (Mark) wrote:
>>>
>>>>I posted earlier about Windows Updates screwing up and not accepting
>>>>any passwords (it would login and then quickly log out). Good News: I
>>>>was able to get the Recovery Console to give us access to the disk. We
>>>>can see C and D drives and all files are there.
>>>>
>>>>Is there a way to clobber/reset passwords from the command prompt?
>>>>
>>>>Our first instinct was to stick a USB Drive in and copy stuff, but the
>>>>USB drivers don't appear to be there on the recovery console.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>