Registry login problem...

From: Mark (TAoS556_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:34:22 -0700

I recently removed the Windows SA (Search Assisstant)
spyware from my computer, and now I can't login.
Whenever I do I type in my password, it goes to the
desktop for one-tenth of a second, and then I get logged
out again. Back to the welcome screen. I was looking on
the net and someone had said something about this
specific spyware attatches itself to some registry entry,
and that by editing the registry from the Recovery
Console I could fix the problem. Right now I can't login
and all I know how to do in the Recovery console is,
well, sit there and stare at C:\WINDOWS. Does anyone
know how to fix this? Or how to edit the registry in the
Recovery Console? I am running XP Home, and would
appreciate any good ideas as to how to fix this..
Someone also mentioned editing the registry over a
network, but I am not on a network, so that rules out
that fix...

Anyone got any good ideas?

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