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Arkady
Hello !
A friend of my father's gave me a computer with a problem
to fix :
When trying to run programs, Windows would claim that the
executable isn't found and wouldn't run the program. But
if you were to right click the file, and choose "run as",
and run it as the same user, the file would work. That
happens with all the applications, including MSIE,
everything in Program Files, all the installed programs,
and so on.
First of all, I googled the problem(on my computer, not
that one), and most pages said that I have the DarkSky(?)
virus, but when I tried to ensure that, it didn't match.
That's bacause I couldn't find any "kernel32.exe"
processes running on the machine. Anyways.
Later on I discovered that there is an AntiVirus on the
system, but it wouldn't run. It had a few quarantined
files, though. All having the "Backdoor.OptixPro.12"
virus. I deleted them, and tried to ensure that it is,
infact, the optixpro12 virus. But it didn't match either,
butcause the :
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
had a very different value from the one listed in the
antivirus' site.
I have " Winampw.exe ""%1"%*" " there, by the way.
To make sure there is no virus, I connected it's HD to a
third computer I have, with Norton Antivirus with the
latest update, made a full scan and found no viruses.
When I connected the HD back, the problem was still there.
It's also there when I try to run in safe mode.
So right now I'm not sure what to do. The symptoms fit a
virus, but the Antivirus said there are none. And the
problem is still there.
Any ideas ?
Thanks !
Best Regards,
Arkady Freidman
A friend of my father's gave me a computer with a problem
to fix :
When trying to run programs, Windows would claim that the
executable isn't found and wouldn't run the program. But
if you were to right click the file, and choose "run as",
and run it as the same user, the file would work. That
happens with all the applications, including MSIE,
everything in Program Files, all the installed programs,
and so on.
First of all, I googled the problem(on my computer, not
that one), and most pages said that I have the DarkSky(?)
virus, but when I tried to ensure that, it didn't match.
That's bacause I couldn't find any "kernel32.exe"
processes running on the machine. Anyways.
Later on I discovered that there is an AntiVirus on the
system, but it wouldn't run. It had a few quarantined
files, though. All having the "Backdoor.OptixPro.12"
virus. I deleted them, and tried to ensure that it is,
infact, the optixpro12 virus. But it didn't match either,
butcause the :
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
had a very different value from the one listed in the
antivirus' site.
I have " Winampw.exe ""%1"%*" " there, by the way.
To make sure there is no virus, I connected it's HD to a
third computer I have, with Norton Antivirus with the
latest update, made a full scan and found no viruses.
When I connected the HD back, the problem was still there.
It's also there when I try to run in safe mode.
So right now I'm not sure what to do. The symptoms fit a
virus, but the Antivirus said there are none. And the
problem is still there.
Any ideas ?
Thanks !
Best Regards,
Arkady Freidman