file association errors

[Juan Torres]

I'm not sure if my mom did something on her laptop or if
she's been infected with the virus mentioned on this url :
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w3
2.yaha.removal.tool.html

...., but the whole thing is, I can't run
any .EXE .COM .BAT files.

I can't run any of the standard tools : system restore,
regedit, mmc, gpedit.msc.

I'm about to follow the instructions outlined in the
above mentioned url, but was wondering if anyone has seen
anything like this ?

If the above procedures don't work, I'm going to have to
rebuild, which is what I was trying to avoid.

any help ?
thanks
JT

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Sure sounds like she's infected with something. Try renaming an executable
to an .scr extension, see if that allows it to run (rename msconfig.exe to
msconfig.scr for example).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Juan Torres]

I found the fix thanks to : http://www.dougknox.com/
I downloaded the file assocciations fixes and it all
works now just fine.