CMD32. Exe

[Gregg]

I found out I had the W32.Pinfi and I bought Norton
Antivirus and Norton Internet Security. When I ran them
in safe mood Norton Antivirus found over 800 infections
and fixed most of them, quarinteened about 50 and made me
delete about 5. One of the five was CMD32.exe. Now my
computer is rid of the virus but when it start up is says
it is missing the cmd32.exe. I am also having problems
running Microsoft Explorer, Nero, and also the Norton
Internet Securities.
I do have my windows XP disc and found the CMD32.exe
within that disc but don't know how to install just that.
Does anybody know how I can install missing parts of
windows XP from the disc.
thank you,
Gregg

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

cmd32.exe is part of the W32.Kwbot.C.Worm:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.kwbot.c.worm.html

Will

 

[Malke]

I found out I had the W32.Pinfi and I bought Norton
Antivirus and Norton Internet Security. When I ran them
in safe mood Norton Antivirus found over 800 infections
and fixed most of them, quarinteened about 50 and made me
delete about 5. One of the five was CMD32.exe. Now my
computer is rid of the virus but when it start up is says
it is missing the cmd32.exe. I am also having problems
running Microsoft Explorer, Nero, and also the Norton
Internet Securities.
I do have my windows XP disc and found the CMD32.exe
within that disc but don't know how to install just that.
Does anybody know how I can install missing parts of
windows XP from the disc.
thank you,
Gregg

You can stop the request for the file by going to Start>Run and typing
"msconfig" without the quotes. Find the reference to cmd32.exe and
uncheck the reference. However, since you had so many viruses you would
be best off formatting your hard drive and doing a clean install of
Windows.

Malke

 

[neil]

As far as I know cmd32.exe is not a windows file, it is a virus. There
shouldn't be a copy of that file an official copy of a windows installation
disk.
The reason windows says it can't find the file at start-up is because it is
set either in the start-up group, found from the start button all
programs>startup. Or it is in the "run" command in the registry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run".

Neil