Yesterday was a really bad day for my laptop and me. It all happened because one stupid RAR password protected file that I downloaded and in order to get the password I need to login to Germany web page and sign up for something (its in Germany as I said). Yeah, as you thinking it’s for sure spyware infested web page and I just want to give a try besides that, I thought I can remove it later if my laptop was attacked.
Short to say after signed up, the bloody web page didn’t provide me any password so, I downloaded RAR Password Cracker software (cracks RAR password files). After cracked the software and add the file to crack and I got an error message (forgot what it says). Not long after that, my taskbar disappeared. Thought it would be some high CPU usage problem, I was waiting for the taskbar to re-appear. Hell is still same and I concluded my laptop was attacked by malwares maybe from web page or from cracked RAR Password Cracker.
The first thing I did was open Task Manager and look for any suspicious process and I found nothing. After that, I open Registry Editor to check for suspicious start up programs and still found nothing. Feeling curious for what happening, I restart my laptop thought nothing was wrong - and what I saw is an empty desktop with no icons, no widgets and not even taskbar except wallpaper. Even when I press Windows button on keyboard is not working but lucky enough the Task Manager and Registry Editor are accessible. After a while the taskbar appears but its flashing (something wrong and its proven the malwares behind for this). When inspecting the whole processes in Task Manager, one process is flashing consistently with taskbar flashing and the process name is ‘Imapi.exe’. After done a few researches on Internet soon I found out that certain spywares disguise as ‘Imapi.exe’.
Realized that ‘Imapi.exe’ causing the problem I searched the root file and deleted it and restart, it's still the same. Even though I deleted and scan the whole system the spyware seems changed/corrupted the Windows system file and registry settings. What can I do then? System Restore would be the life saver however, I turned off the System Restore to recover hard disk space that the System Restore taken. At that time I felt, I’m the dumbest guy ever. As one last chance, I attempted to repair my Windows however there is a problem with that my laptop shutdown very often whenever I install a fresh copy of Windows or repair. That means its not easy way to do it but I still tried and ended up fail for 3 times.
Pissed of with my laptop’s unknown problem which causes it shutdown half way when fixing Windows I decided to look for another option. I thought look for additional information on Internet might provide any solutions and before I do that I was welcomed by black screen with white fonts printed when I boot the system
Following Windows files are corrupted or missing..
Windows\System32\Config\System
Great isn’t it due to stupid behavior of my laptop shutdown half way when repairing made certain files corrupted. Feeling angry, pissed off, amok, and regret I tried again and again to repair. It still shutdown half way and made me look very helpless. Once again my laptop screwed me damn f**king nicely.
To be continued…
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