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HungryMan
October 11th, 2008, 11:06 AM
Last march, I ran a program that I thought was an installer of a certain program. Suddenly, My wallpaper disappeared, pop-ups pop-upped my start menu acted weird, it was a virus (virii actually). Quickly, I rebooted into safe mode, ran security task manager and looked for suspicious processes. I restricted access to them (I'm not sure if the file is important). One of them was msgina.dll

Here comes my question, how can I undo what I have done? The file was on an NTFS partition and I removed all permissions to all users. I had simple file sharing turned off. I have no problem on ubuntu, it's just that Windows XP itself can not access msgina.dll. I am not interested in any antivirus software, as I am quite sure that no further damage can be done. By permissions I do not mean chmod permissions on unix-based systems.
Any help is appreciated.

Izek
October 17th, 2008, 05:33 PM
Run CACLS in cmd / command prompt as an admin in Windows. Unless you can't get into windows. (If you can't get into windows, then this should be moved.)

http://www.ss64.com/nt/cacls.html

Or do you mean login permissions?

HungryMan
October 20th, 2008, 05:12 AM
nope, I meant the permissions in the right click>properties>security but AFAIK this only works on an NTFS volume with simple file sharing turned off.
I'll post a screenshot if I get to use windows again.