[SOLVED] Painful slow login (Windows 8.1)

[hellbraker]

Hi, lately the OS seems to login too slow. The symptom:
a) I have no password setup so booting is fast till the window screen. Once it enters the desktop, I am left staring at a black screen (full screen) with cursor.
b) Hitting ALT+CTRL+DEL does nothing initially (still black). Then there appears a black windowed screen with just a close button. By this time the Task Manager appears and Explorer comes up as normal. I then close the black screen.

 

[hellbraker]

Spybots Startup Tools list an entry under HK_LM:RunOnce
C:\windows\SysWOW64\wscript.exe/E:vbscript /B "C:\user-pc\AppData\Roaming\Dador"

But either that entry is hidden or the directory is not present cos it doesn't exist.

 

[hellbraker]

ok it seems the issue is fixed. Now the login is fast as before. All I did was to delete that entry with Spybot. Googling the entry gave nothing. So I guess I was the first...but who knows maybe a variant of something else.

 

[xilolee]

Hi hellbraker. :welcome:

I searched a similar behavior and it seems it could have something to do with ransomware, browser highjacking or bad cleaners.
Therefore, if I were you, I'd be on the safe side and I'd take a tour in sysnative security arena sub-forum (click) with Corrine or BrianDrab (or another allowed-to-deal-with-removing-malware member).

Read Malware Removal Posting Instructions (click) before opening a new thread.

 

[hellbraker]

Thanks will go through it.