I just ran into this problem today at a client. They had spyware and viruses all over the place but I thought I got everything. So I started installing Windows Updates (security updates) when IE crashed and I had to reboot the PC. When I rebooted I was faced with a completely blank desktop.
I was able to CTRL-ALT-DELETE to run any and all programs but McAfee/AdAware/Spybot picked up nothing. I am going to try and run this "Autoruns" program I read about in this thread and see if I can find the malicious files causing this problem. It worked on my PC and fortunately nothing malignant came up.
And I couldn't agree more with a previous post about why people create this code. They could be earning a great living writing code like this to help users, instead they write it to bring systems down. Doesn't make much sense. But if anyone has run into this problem again please post and let me know if there are any easier solutions to this problem.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
simmser11
