Registry Editor Window Error msg

[Guest]

My user has a Win 2000 Pro machine on our Win 2003 Small Biz server. He
receives the following error message (Registry Editor is in the title bar)
when opening an application like MS Excel: "Cannot import
c:\winnt\mcbin\shared\common.reg: The specified file is not a registry
script. You can import only registry files.

I am a novice network admin and I have never dealt with registry issues.
Can anyone help?

 

[Dave Patrick]

I doubt it is a registry issue. Looks like some poorly written malware at
work.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| My user has a Win 2000 Pro machine on our Win 2003 Small Biz server. He
| receives the following error message (Registry Editor is in the title bar)
| when opening an application like MS Excel: "Cannot import
| c:\winnt\mcbin\shared\common.reg: The specified file is not a registry
| script. You can import only registry files.
|
| I am a novice network admin and I have never dealt with registry issues.
| Can anyone help?

 

[Guest]

I did a virus scan on the computer and found backdoor.trojan and another
virus. According to Symantec these affect the registry. I removed them and
scanned again and they are gone. I'm wondering if they damaged the registry
in any way. I backed up the registry before I scanned, do you think I should
restore the registry? Or is there a way to repair the registry? Is there
some Microsoft documentation that I can assist me?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Personally I'd recut the machine. Restoring the registry would revert the
machine to the time of the last backup. Can you be sure the virus didn't
exist then? You'll need to reinstall all applications installed since the
last backup. Believe me, these things aren't worth the time it takes to
chase them down.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I did a virus scan on the computer and found backdoor.trojan and another
| virus. According to Symantec these affect the registry. I removed them
and
| scanned again and they are gone. I'm wondering if they damaged the
registry
| in any way. I backed up the registry before I scanned, do you think I
should
| restore the registry? Or is there a way to repair the registry? Is there
| some Microsoft documentation that I can assist me?

 

[Guest]

thanks, the user bought another machine so we'll use the new one.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| thanks, the user bought another machine so we'll use the new one.