VX2 Info on MS Knowledge Base

[Ron Chamberlin]

A new MSFT Knowledge Base Article :
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=904677

You receive a "Windows File Protection: Files that are required for windows
to run properly have been replaced by unknown versions" error in Windows
Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000

Many Thanks to sister MVP Susan Bradley for passing this over.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

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Ron Chamberlin used his keyboard to write :

A new MSFT Knowledge Base Article :
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=904677

You receive a "Windows File Protection: Files that are required for windows
to run properly have been replaced by unknown versions" error in Windows
Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000

Many Thanks to sister MVP Susan Bradley for passing this over.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

Hi

Never heard about this fault and VX2 infections.
Nothing about it in all safety forums, is this something new ?

Maybe you have some more background ?

If you are a "modder"/uxtheme or "codecs changer" and I have heard it

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I believe I've seen a couple of posts here with the resultant error
message--you can see it for yourself by simply unregistering that component.
I haven't done a search to check, though--and I don't believe at the time
anyone connected them to vx2. There are some naming issues around vx2--it
is being attached to two rather different families of malware, apparently.

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