How to get winupdate.exe

[Marlene Miller]

Norton Anti-virus found a virus in winupdate.exe and
quarantined the file. Now, I get the error "Cannot find
the file winupdate.exe" when I login.

Can you please tell me how I go about requesting and
installing another copy of winupdate.exe.

(I installed the latest and greatest updates and patches.
The missing file was not replaced.)

Thank you very much. Marlene

 

[Dave Patrick]

You don't want. Part of the virus. Start\Settings\Control
Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management(Local)\System
Information\Software Environment\Startup Programs|View|Advanced, then in the
"Location" column, you'll find the path to the "Startup" location either in
the "Startup" directories or from the registry's "Run" keys.

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

You can delete the shortcuts that you no longer want to run.


HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

You can delete the string value for the program you no longer want to run.