Can't copy and paste in Explorer

[Mike Frechtman]

just installed new hard drive and loaded windows 2000.
for some reason, in Windows Explorer, can't drag and drop
and copy and paste.

I am able to install and use applications. Any help?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

just installed new hard drive and loaded windows 2000.
for some reason, in Windows Explorer, can't drag and drop
and copy and paste.

I am able to install and use applications. Any help?

Hi

This could be caused by the Blaster work or one of it's variants. If you didn't
install KB824146 (or KB823980) before you connected the computer to a network,
this is very likely to happen.


Update to stop the Blaster worm and it's variants from infecting your computer
can be downloaded from here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=824146


Then you can run a cleanup tool, e.g. Stinger.exe from McAfee, it removes 30+
virus/worms in one sweep, including all MSBlaster variants (McAfee
name W32/Lovsan.worm), Welchia (McAfee name W32/Nachi.worm) and Sobig.f

McAfee AVERT Stinger
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/


More here as well
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp