a while back i had this problem and now its back, but not going away...
there was a bunch of 'taskkill' extensions and commands in my system32 file, so i deleted a bunch of them, and task manager wouldn't still come up. i kept searching, and now i found another 'tskill.exe' i delete it and it reappears. i move it from system32 file to desktop to find it easier to use secure shredder on my Spybot, and it reappeared in the system32 file, while it was on the desktop... what would the trouble be?
-Alright, renamed tskill.exe to tskill.log to find out whats it made of and i found a couple things..
it mensions some files:
-WINSTA.dll
-USER32.dll
-ntdll.dll
-msvcrt.dll
-KERNEL32.dll
then a bunch of gibberish, the it sais all this crap
D WinStationTerminateProcess ! WinStationFreeMemory WinStationEnumerateProcesses WinStationFreeGAPMemory # WinStationGetAllProcesses / WinStationOpenServerW WINSTA.dll É LoadStringW USER32.dll l towupper q wcschr * _wcslwr x wcsncpy wcstoul u wcslen s wcscpy % _ultoa p wcscat } wcstol + _wcsnicmp l VerSetConditionMask r wcscmp P memmove ntdll.dll > _iob « fwprintf ó setlocale ? fprintf × malloc ¤ free vfwprintf # vswprintf & _wcsdup Å _c_exit ö _exit N _XcptFilter È _cexit ? exit n __initenv m __getmainargs : _initterm ? __setusermatherr ¶ _adjust_fdiv ? __p__commode ? __p__fmode ? __set_app_type msvcrt.dll Ö _controlfp í _except_handler3 ADVAPI32.dll á FormatMessageW Z GetLastError å FreeLibrary 1 LoadLibraryW þ SetLastError u WriteConsoleW P GetFileType ? GetStdHandle Q MultiByteToWideChar j GetModuleHandleW T VerifyVersionInfoW 8 LocalFree 4 LocalAlloc þ GetCommandLineW K GetFileAttributesW Ï FindNextFileW È FindFirstFileW g GetModuleHandleA KERNEL32.dll
tskill.exe is a normal part of Windows. It will get replaced by Windows when you delete it. Why do you want to delete it? Is this your problem?
Quote:Why does Task Manager, MSCONFIG, or REGEDIT disappear while opening?
Symptoms
When you open System Configuration Utility [MSCONFIG], Registry Editor or Task Manager, they flash for a second and quit. This symptom is caused by viruses. These three are important system utilities which the viruses target.
A quick workaround is to rename the files and run them. Extracting new copies of these files with the same name may not help. Rename these utilities and run them or use MS-MVP, Doug Knox's Emergency Msconfig, Regedit, Task Manager utility. This utility creates usable copies of MSCONFIG, REGEDIT AND TASK MANAGER by creating copies of the actual files to C:\EmergencyUtils folder.
task manager wont open,, i though that it was a virus or something the last time this happend, this guy told me to delete it and shit, so i did, and task manager worked after that.
