I Couldn't Find "run" On My Start Menu, Why Is This?

It's not compulsory u see the run program on your start menudon't panic. .just go to All programsClick on Accessories. . and u'll find it thereif u're using windows vista. .u can just type 'run' in the search box on the start menu. .

if your using Vista to make it appear just hole the "windows" button and hit R,it should pop up .alternatively right click your taskbar and goto customize your start menu scroll down and tick it,it should pop on yous start menu

it is posible that you may have had a virus in which case you may have to tweak via the registry.

to enable run on the start menu,
click on your taskbar,
select properties,
select start menu from the tabs
click on customize
select advanced tab


, you should see 'run command '
among the unticked options.tick it select ok. if this doesn't work, you probably have had a virus which has hidden/disabled run via the registry

then do update your antivirus.depends o the one uv got tho and hw effective it might be

I just did what 'PEIN' told me to do, I hitted the help the window button and pressed R, it sad "THIS OPERATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO RESTRICTIONS IN EFFECT ON THIS COMPUTER. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR." Maybe a rat here has been playing with it and changed some settings??

download this app

reg toy

google it.

all the virus has done is alter some registry settings. you may find that you cannot access the following

like neo said - folder options
run
regedit
taskmanager

regtoy enables you to tweak your registry via the gui

it requirs .net framework 2.2, though, so you need that (if you don't already have it installed). cheers

how often do you update it?

an antivirus is only as good as its most recent update.

going by everything you've written i think you do have a virus/spyware

try using spyware doctor to scan for it.

the big problem with formatting is this - you back up your fils, which typically includes the files brotonlk is hiding in. you format reinstall, and the moment you revisit a particular folder, its biz as usual

guy, FORMAT!

@Neotony
Thanks a lot, yes, i recently inserted a flash drive with a lot of virus, what do you think i can do?
thanks in advance.

if it is brontok, its possible that antivirus apps are seeing it but can't delete it because its a running process. download process explorere or any third party task manager. you should see new folder .exe running among the processes. select it, and pick the option kill process. then run your antivirus.

i got hit by brontok last year and that worked. i used regtoy to restore my system settings, though i was never able to recover the folder options, though that can be done by creating a new profile ( like u did using guest) and transferring all your files to it. kaspersky will find and kill brontok - maybe u shld download it.


i know kaspersky works because a cafe i used to visit had brontok . i knew this because i was seeing my old friend new folder.exe, folder name .exe in my flashy. kaspersky wiped em out like that.

brontok DOES remove the run command. it has so many variants with different names but brontok is the generic name. it also infects and kills all the exes it can find and jumps across networks and flashdrives.

d'uh!   


for where! you never ever see newfolder.exe as a running process. infact, brontok is so good at hiding all its processses that most antivirus can't see it. sometimes you see eksplorasi.exe and  spoofs of smss.exe and isass.exe, but the newest strain is a bitch to dig out.

modern viruses employ rootkits to hide deep inside the system and return false flags to the antivirus program, so it remains hidden. if your precious antivirus does not have an anti-rootkit, forget it. you could be infected without you ever knowing no matter your antivirus. 

isass.exe is the main payload of certain viruses, particularly ones that mess with firewalls and open backdoors into your box. it is mostly mistaken that this backdoor allows hackers to infiltrate: not always so. mostly it allows a flood of other malware to bypass your firewall and set up shop in your precious box, things like adware, spyware etc. isass.exe comes mostly via worms and since brontok itself is a kind of mailer worm it comes with isass.exe.

becareful though: i said spoofs above, and that is true. there IS a windows system file known as Lsass.exe, but it starts with an L looking like an i. the one that actually starts with an i is the virus.

smss.exe is the harder one to remove as there is also an actual windows component with that name, the Session Manager SubSystem which handles sessions in a running box. the bitch is that both the process and the viral one have the same spelling, but normally you are supposed to have only one instance running. do not delete this if you don't want to format your lappy.

that is why i recommend a format.


as to your other question: a virus is a small piece of malicious program written by antivirus vendors to make you a slave to their antivirus bloatware.

Now the virus is down with my laptop, I posted earlier that I couldn't find RUN on the start Menu, now, the CONNECT TO,  on the start Menu is also gone, so i can't switch internet connection, maybe from LAN to any other kind. Please what can I do??

@UNLEASHED
you practically have no choice now but to format,possibly both of them.

@OYB
I really appreciate you guys, You asked me to download a standalone Kaspersky tool but i use NOD 32, that was before I format it, now I have formatted it and i have free version of AVG. Can I still download the Kaspersky standalone tool??
Thanks in advance.

never run more than one antivirus tool at once.