I believe they may have started since removing the virtumonde virus
What steps did you take to remove the infection?
It's not unusual to receive such errors when "booting up" after using anti-virus and other security scanning tools to remove malware infection.
A "
Cannot find...", "
Could not run...", "
Error loading... or "
specific module could not be found" message is usually related to malware that was set to run at startup but has been deleted. Windows is trying to load this file but cannot locate it since the file was mostly likely removed during an anti-virus or anti-malware scan. However, an associated
orphaned registry entry remains and is telling Windows to load the file when you boot up. Since the file no longer exists, Windows will display an
error message. You need to remove this registry entry so Windows stops searching for the file when it loads.
To resolve this, download
Autoruns, search for the related entry and then delete it.
- Create a new folder on your hard drive called AutoRuns (C:\AutoRuns) and extract (unzip) the file there. (click here if you're not sure how to do this.)
- Open the folder and double-click on autoruns.exe to launch it.
- Please be patient as it scans and populates the entries.
- When done scanning, it will say Ready at the bottom.
- Scroll through the list and look for a startup entry related to the file(s) in the error message.
- Right-click on the entry and choose delete.
- Reboot your computer and see if the startup error returns.
Edited by quietman7, 10 December 2008 - 11:08 AM.