Don't I need the cleaned/deleted files that had the worm ?

[Martin]

I had the Welchia worm and ran out and bought Norton and
it 'cleaned' the two infected files by automatically
deleting them. (I could have done that myself since I
already knew where they were). Now my question is, don't
I need these files for something? Aren't these operating
system files that my system will need someday? How do I
get clean copies of the files back?

The files were:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wins\DLLHOST.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wins\SVCHOST.EXE

I am running XP Pro.

Thanks.

Martin.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Look in %windir%\system32 for those two files. If you find them, run
"sfc /scannow" to verify that they are undamaged. No need to extract
them from the XP CD if you find them in the proper place undamaged.