Error message - not a valid Windows image

[Guest]

Using XP, I keep getting an error message that some type of file is not "a
valid Windows image." The file in the top of the error message is either
netsz or javaee32 and the file referenced is either in the Windows folder or
Windows/System32 folder. Is a .dll file and the specific file changes with
every error message. I simply click OK, the error messages disappear and I
continue with whatever I am doing for a minute before they appear again. I
want this to stop, can anybody help?

 

[M and D]

Think they could be viruses or spyware?

Steven

 

[Guest]

I have performed spyware checks (using AdAware) and virus scan (Symantec).
Doesn't seem to have helped. Dan

 

[Guest]

download the free version of "antivir - luke file walker" from
www.free-av.com. install it and run it. let it do a complete system scan.
that should take care of the virus.

Let me know if this helps
yogi

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem. I get an error message with just about any file
action. I click ok and it goes away but is quickly replaced by another
duplicate of the same error message: C:\windows\system32\sqlfkbi.dll is not a
valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette. My
question is whether the error message is part of a spyware, malware or virus
effect (no scans reveal any threats) or if somehow I corrupted a real windows
dll file. This file does not show up in my system32 folder on my backup
drive. Have you located a solution or can anyone else answer this? I have run
Luke Filewalker, Noadware, Spy Sweeper and Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta.

 

[Richard Urban]

sqlfkbi.dll is not a valid Windows file at all. It is likely installed by
malware that made it onto your computer. If you cleaned it out, even
partially and unsuccessfully, this file may have been deleted. That's good!
Unfortunately the startup entry for this file is still in existence
somewhere. Because the file is missing, you get that error message.

Go to start | run and type in msconfig - enter. Go to the startup tab and
look for this entry. When you find it, disallow it's startup. Exit the
window and reboot.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Richard:

Going to the startup tab did not work because the file is hidden and does
not show in the list. Rolling back to a previous windows state did not help
either. The final screen in the roll back showed the troublesome dll file as
not being able to be deleted and it referenced Spy Sweeper (One of the
anti-spyware programs I attempted to use) but it flashed too fast to copy the
details. None of the first set of spyware programs were able to remove it.
Even when those programs were started from the windows safe mode, the dll
file would show up in the log as locked and inaccessible. Finally, I was able
to kill the dll with Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security. As I recall,
Trend Micro does have a free online virus tool you can use but I used the
Internet Security 8.0 program. One sweep with the spyware tool and it found
the dll and deleted it. No further error screens. A quick reboot to make sure
it was really gone showed no further instances of the error screen.