Hijacked by 'Best PC health components Control Centre'

Damn............ how to get rid off it?

I can do a ctrl+alt+delete and bring up the task manager and kill the
process BUT my desktop has lost the task bar and starting orb. Moving the
mouse top or bottom or to either side does not 'unhide' the toolbar so that
I can access my USB drive with rkill.com (a process to kill this malware) on
it.

Have tried booting into Safe Mode and the viral program appears there also,
but once again cannot access the Start Orb or Task bar.

I have no knowledge of any 'DOS' commands should I be able to go to safe
mode with cmd prompt. Whereto now please?

Using Vista Home Premium.

In Task Manager type on File menu - NewTask (Run...)
explorer

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"Geoff" <> wrote in message
news:4b97136e$0$8039$ ...
> Damn............ how to get rid off it?
>
> I can do a ctrl+alt+delete and bring up the task manager and kill the
> process BUT my desktop has lost the task bar and starting orb. Moving the
> mouse top or bottom or to either side does not 'unhide' the toolbar so
> that I can access my USB drive with rkill.com (a process to kill this
> malware) on it.
>
> Have tried booting into Safe Mode and the viral program appears there
> also, but once again cannot access the Start Orb or Task bar.
>
> I have no knowledge of any 'DOS' commands should I be able to go to safe
> mode with cmd prompt. Whereto now please?
>
> Using Vista Home Premium.
>
>
>

Thank you very much - I have learned something new.



<.> wrote in message news:...
> In Task Manager type on File menu - NewTask (Run...)
> explorer
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> "Geoff" <> wrote in message
> news:4b97136e$0$8039$ ...
>> Damn............ how to get rid off it?
>>
>> I can do a ctrl+alt+delete and bring up the task manager and kill the
>> process BUT my desktop has lost the task bar and starting orb. Moving the
>> mouse top or bottom or to either side does not 'unhide' the toolbar so
>> that I can access my USB drive with rkill.com (a process to kill this
>> malware) on it.
>>
>> Have tried booting into Safe Mode and the viral program appears there
>> also, but once again cannot access the Start Orb or Task bar.
>>
>> I have no knowledge of any 'DOS' commands should I be able to go to safe
>> mode with cmd prompt. Whereto now please?
>>
>> Using Vista Home Premium.
>>
>>
>>
>

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:35:04 +1000, "Geoff"
<> wrote:


> I can do a ctrl+alt+delete and bring up the task manager and kill the
> process BUT my desktop has lost the task bar and starting orb. Moving the
> mouse top or bottom or to either side does not 'unhide' the toolbar so that


The Task Bar is resizable like a window. It's possible that it may
have been resized to zero lines high. Try putting the cursor on the
very bottom of the screen and moving it up and down slightly until it
turns into a two-headed arrow. When it does, drag it back up to the
size you want.

If that doesn't work, it may be zero lines and also have been moved to
another side of the screen. Try the same thing on all four sides of
the screen.

If you can't get it back from any of the four sides, this tool should
fix it: Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

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Thanks Ken - no signs of a double headed arrow unfortunately and I did use
the tip to use the Task Manager to get the task bar back.
Thanks for your reference and will keep that one also for the future.

It was quite interesting that no one suggested using System Restore to get
rid of 'PC Health center'?


"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:35:04 +1000, "Geoff"
> <> wrote:
>
>
>> I can do a ctrl+alt+delete and bring up the task manager and kill the
>> process BUT my desktop has lost the task bar and starting orb. Moving the
>> mouse top or bottom or to either side does not 'unhide' the toolbar so
>> that
>
>
> The Task Bar is resizable like a window. It's possible that it may
> have been resized to zero lines high. Try putting the cursor on the
> very bottom of the screen and moving it up and down slightly until it
> turns into a two-headed arrow. When it does, drag it back up to the
> size you want.
>
> If that doesn't work, it may be zero lines and also have been moved to
> another side of the screen. Try the same thing on all four sides of
> the screen.
>
> If you can't get it back from any of the four sides, this tool should
> fix it: Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
>
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> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup