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HELP! My "friend" sabotaged my computer and I can't fix it!

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Hi so my friend pulled a prank on me by running some script at startup. What it does is it types "colereallysuckscolereallysuckscolereallysucks..." over and over again, in whatever text box you have selected. I don't know where the file is. It starts running about 3 seconds after I log on. This means that searching for it in the windows search bar doesn't do anything, when it is being spammed.

 

I spent the last hour trying to fix it. I was able to navigate to control panel by a very long indirect way that didn't evolve a keyboard, and found that there is no unusual program installed. Also I didn't see anything in any of the task manager tabs.

 

Please help me. Thanks!

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Get linux on a usb using a different computer, boot in to linux, open the windows file system, startup folder, delete the file if it's there.

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Sounds a bit like this..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=48k9eyVsC-M

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Okay I just managed to stop it by killing wscript in processes. So I stopped it. However I still don't know where the file is. Any ideas?

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You can right click on the task if the script is running and select 'open file path'. You have to get it started for that unfortunately.

 

Or you just look for the autostart entry via autoruns.

-> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

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I'm dying to know what your response will be. Make it good:) 

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