Startup Message: Windows cannot find 'copy'

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Murray

I am getting this message on startup. Not always, but frequently. The
startup process stops at the Welcome screen and sits there. When I hit any
key, I get the message that Windows cannot find 'copy' and says to do a
search to find it. I fool around with a few more keys, and the boot process
proceeds.

I have nothing in my Startup folder, and the problem started a few weeks ago
for reasons that I do not understand. Does anyone have a fix for this?

Murray
 
sound like you have a virus or a trojan. something is running at startup
that's trying to do a copy, and it's failing because the path isn't set up
right (yet). That's a good thing, it's caused it to reveal itself.

try a virus scan, then a spyware scan (AdAware).

run msconfig and see what is running at startup. does anything listed
look suspicious? most likely it's a .bat or .cmd file being run.

are you logging into a domain? is it during the network login? have your
administrator check the login script.
 
I ran Trend Micro's free scan and it found five files infected with "TROJ
WINSHOW.A".

Can you recommend a good virus checker for Windows XP. I have problems with
certain free virus checkers that either came with computers or were
downloaded. They slowed certain computer functions down considerably.
 
I hate to say it, but Norton is usually always declared "the best". If
you find that it's slowing your system too much then turn off the
automatic stuff. but always remember to scan any new file you download
right away (it's easy because NAV adds a right-click "scan file..." item
to Explorer), and run a full scan regularly. Update your virus-defs
weekly, Symantec releases an update every wednesday, or sooner if a big
threat is discovered.

I use it, it works. I don't enable ANY of it's background stuff tho
(auto-detect, script-block, email-scan, etc), I just use it manually and
let the Office plug-in do its thing.
 
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