Have lost naviga(tilde)1.exe. Cannot locate it in run programs or in Recuva. Any ideas?

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Sheila,

What is; naviga(tilde)1.exe ...... Recuva????

BW



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On Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 3:11 pm, Sheila Burns wrote:

>Have lost naviga(tilde)1.exe.  Cannot locate it in run programs or in Recuva.  Any 

>ideas?
 

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Bob, As you can see, I am in a mess. I have no idea what naviga (above space a tilde)1.exe is but I succeeded in losing it, however!

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Sheila Burns wrote:
|[...]I have no idea what [naviga~1.exe] is[...]

I suspect it is (was?) part of your infection.
It could be part of Norton's crapware; *I* think it's an alias for malware.
It is NOT part of Windows 98.

I like Keith's 
suggestion:  As many things as are screwed up on this thing,
it's time to back up the data, wipe the HDD, and start fresh.

If my *infection* guess is correct, that componds the value of the suggestion;
you could keep messing with this thing till Doomsday
and STILL not get it right via the piecemeal approach.


I also suspect that you use Internet Explorer (I call it Internet Exploder).
If you stop that and get a 21st Century browser,
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
   or
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=windows
your browser will be FAR less likely to ASSIST in infecting itself
AND INFECTING THE WHOLE SYSTEM.

This advice goes for Outlook Express too.
As an infection vector, it is second only to Internet Exploder.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Thunderbird+email

Alternatives to both of those pieces of crapware are available gratis
(Firefox and Thunderbird are also libre--if anybody cares).

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Shiela,

I don't think the naviga~1.exe ia much of a problem. The file is from Netscape Navigator 
(expired Web Browser). Netscape probably came with your Machine. Go to Add/Remove 
to see if there is an entry for Netscape. Remove it if there is.

You'll probably get to deal with this again if you have to reinstall Windows. Make 
it the first thing you disable when you reinstall.

Recuva, depending on the version, may not be appropriate for your System. I know 
Win98 is supported but most important files are relatively easy to recover in Win98.

Could be a resource Hog.  I havn't tried it but it's just duplicating features already 
available in Win98.

I can't argue with gewg_'s recommendations, however, I would delay introducing a 
new Browser ie... FireFox, till your other problems are resolved. Hard to troubleshoot 
when new software is introduced.

Just my opinion.

BW





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On Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 12:53 pm, Sheila Burns wrote:

>Bob,

>

>As you can see, I am in a mess.  I have no idea what naviga (above space a tilde)1.exe 

>is but I succeeded in losing it, however!

>
 

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Thanks, Bob! I thought it had something to do with navigator. Oh, TCP/IP was where you told me to look. The only thing is my IP address and submask are missing. I plan on getting them from Verizon Saturday. I will let you know later about the other items for which you have so generously offered assistance. You are the hero I was looking for! Sheila

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