Last ditch effort for help re: AUNPS2.dll

[kronos6948]

A co worker of mine gave me his computer to clean up.

Turns out he had a ton of spyware/malware/trojans on his PC.

I got 99.9% of everything clean, but every time I start the PC, I get an error message that says:

error loading aunps2.dll

I've seen a ton of different websites that tell you that you need to run a Hijack This log and a ton of other different things (I've put Killbox on the PC, and am prepared to delete a few things off of it).

Anyhow, things I've done so far:

Ran Ad-Aware
Ran Spybot
Ran Avast
Ran CCleaner
Even gone into Regedit myself (even though it should've been taken care of through CCleaner, but I wanted to be sure)


Problem is, he would like his computer back by tomorrow.

Any ideas on a quick way to get rid of it?

Not only that, his computer is waaaay old (running a 2.4 gHz P4 with only 248mb RAM), but he can't afford a new one, and I wanted to clean this thing up without just reinstalling Windows, since, as someone put it on here, that doing that is like removing someone's jaw just because they have a toothache.

Many thanks given in advance.

[tehboris]

Not only that, his computer is waaaay old (running a 2.4 gHz P4 with only 248mb RAM), but he can't afford a new one, and I wanted to clean this thing up without just reinstalling Windows, since, as someone put it on here, that doing that is like removing someone's jaw just because they have a toothache.

That is a bad simaly. Reinstalling Windows fixes the problem by replacing the jaw bone with a band new one, every one wins.

[xcorvis]

Somewhere in the registry "Aunps2.dll" is being called. It's a little bit risky, but you can search the registry for "Aunps2" and delete every entry that has that string in it. You should make a registry backup first.

You might also try Malware Bytes, that might find it automatically. Also, run the CCleaner registry cleanup multiple times until it comes up clean.

[tehboris]

Somewhere in the registry "Aunps2.dll" is being called. It's a little bit risky, but you can search the registry for "Aunps2" and delete every entry that has that string in it.

Not necessarily, it could have replaced a DLL in say explorer with a modified version which calls this DLL. Reinstall++

[tokenuser]

Applying the latest service pack might also do this (and is recommended anyway) ... just make sure you do it under Safe Mode.

[computoman]

Try regvac from download.com and see it if works. Uusually the parts left hanging in the registry are usually but not always found in one place. you should be able to use msconfig to find it quickly.

[gta_bmx]

How much time and energy have you put into trying to avoid doing a format and reinstall? With the Service Packs, it doesn't take long to reinstall an OS and its patches. Then you get a fresh, clean system that runs perfect. You don't have to sit there in front of the PC while it loads Windows. It'll do its thing and occasionally ask you about a preference or 2.

[gta_bmx]

I'd tell your friend to go on ebay and get a stick of 256mb-512mb RAM for $5-$10 or whatever. Then there'd be less of a desire on your friend's part to pull his hair out while waiting for his PC to continually catch up. Friends don't let friends use 256mb of RAM.

[md2389]

Did you check what programs load when windows loads (msconfig), and run a search on their filename?

btw, I hope you nuked all the user's restore points as well. (damn near anything will infect those these days)