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re: Can't open files of type 'Application'
Monday, September 15, 2003 at 2:00 pm
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Posted by WhitPhil (703 messages posted)


There was NOT a virus on the Norton install CD. 
The virus (or trojan) was installed on YOUR PC.

When you ran NAV it detected and removed/quarantined the virus/trojan/worm BUT did 
not correct the registry entry where it had placed a reference to it's exe file. 
Thus, after the run you could no longer run anything.

BTW the file names are different because there are many virus/worm/trojans that just 
generate a random file name. 

If you ever see a missing file message or a reference to something that looks like 
asefkieng, odds are excellent that you either were or are infected.



Written in response to:
re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (Mansoor: Monday, September 15, 2003 at 10:55 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (Jon Koerner: Saturday, September 20, 2003 at 11:56 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Can't open files of type 'Application' (Mike: Fri, Jun 8, 2001, 5:23 am)
-re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (Bobstur: Fri, Jun 8, 2001, 7:21 am)
-re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (Parimal: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 6:12 am)
-re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (Mansoor: Mon, Sep 15, 2003, 10:55 am)
-re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (WhitPhil: Mon, Sep 15, 2003, 2:00 pm)
-re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (Jon Koerner: Sat, Sep 20, 2003, 11:56 am)
-re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (alexis: Fri, Nov 21, 2003, 4:33 am)
*re: Can't open files of type 'Application' (WhitPhil: Fri, Nov 21, 2003, 9:10 am)
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