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re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 12:58 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by krash1201
(3 messages posted)
Bada Bing....so that worked, if you can locate the file in the registry, run-->regedit,
then you can delete the file there, and on restart you can delete the file from the
location on the harddrive. when i went into delete the file norton nailed it and
deleted it, something it hadn't been able to do prior. hope that helps deal with
the rather pertinacious file. Cheers!
On Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 9:54 am, krash1201 wrote:
>i am having similar trouble with the winupd.exe file that carries the download.trojan.
> this particular file sucks becasue it constantly runs, so you can't delete the
file
>directly, and norton antivirus can't delete it either. frustrating to begin with
>especially because symatech says this has only infected something like 50 machines,
>yeah, can we say corporate bs?
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>i found the file in the registry 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run,
>listed as winupd.exe. past that i don't know what to do, but i imagine if i can
>go about stopping it from running i may be able to delete it, or alter the registry
>so that it won't open on start up.
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>hopefully by deleting it from the registry that will happen. other then that i
don't
>know.
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>Any other ideas??
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