cannot run exe apps

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Leon

Hi

I have a virus which messed up my file associations. I cannot run any .exe
applications.
I have tried renaming regedit.exe to regedit.com but I cannot run .com
either .

Any suggestions


Thanks
 
I looked in the file association for com files and when I clicked on file
extention , advanced, open , edit it says
c:\windows\system32\uninstallset.pif""%1" %* .
The uninstallset.pif is not longer on my PC
 
Sounds like your machine is pretty messed up. Command.Com doesn't run?
You might need to change the registry entries from a remote/network
machine or from a parallel installation. You can also slave the disk in
another Windows 2000/XP machine to do the work but without knowing what
this virus is you should be careful that the host machine doesn't get
infected as well.

John
 
We'll be ecstatic too, once you ensure us you've installed a good
antivirus package, a decent firewall, and so on. ;-)
Hi All

I am ecstatic. After spending the entire day trying to fix this problem Alan
Edwards from the XP general newsgroup saved my day in a second. Thanks for
your help though
This Swen fix corrected my problem

http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/Fixswen.inf





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