I am quite sure that I have the Conficker C virus and I need a bit of help to remove it. The worm seems smart enough to be able to disable any of the patches that I copied to this PC. I had to download patches from another PC and then transfer them to this one because I can no longer access microsoft, symantic or any sites that I would normally go to to get a patch or fix.
I have all the patches but I am unable to use them because the worm terminates the applications as soon as I start them. I think that if I run the PC in safe mode I will be able to run the patch but the worm has deleted the registry key that allows a boot to safe mode.
Is anyone running W2000 that can copy or export the following key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot
Once it is exported just open in notepad and post it here. I can then import the key and I will be able to boot in safe mode again.
For more details about the worm read here.
W32/Conficker.C!worm
Thanks
Don