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Tue, May 17, 11 at 16:23
| Vista Home Premium
I was working on cleaning off a trojan (vista defender 2011) and I think I got some of it cleaned up, but when I went to open Internet Explorer, it asked me what program I want to use to open it with. Since it was just a shortcut, I chose IE. Still no go. I used another computer to download SuperAntiSpyware and MBAM. I placed them on a flash drive and copied them to the desktop of the Vista computer. Same problem when I click on them to install them. It asked me what program do I want to use to open this file. I tried booting to last known good configuration. No help. I am completely at a loss at this point. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Pooh Bear |
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| You may have a borken EXE file association problem, probably from the Malware. The computer should be taken to a malware removal forum for further analysis. Broken EXE associations will show up in more thorough scans used by those forums. In the mean time here's a link for fixing the EXE association issue in Vista. You may need to download it onto a flash drive, just click the EXE in the box provided on the web page the link below takes you to... Good luck. |
Here is a link that might be useful: File-association-fixes-for-Windows
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- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Tue, May 17, 11 at 18:58
| Yes that fake vista rogue is hitting seen it a few times now, definitely suggest going to LzD and starting a thread there of your own they will help you run those specialized scans to get the rest of that thing off there. Analysis and Malware Removal |
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- Posted by poohbear2767 (My Page) on Tue, May 17, 11 at 21:14
| That took care of the exe problem and now programs open just fine. I installed SAS and MBAM and both scans seem to have taken care of the problem. Now I have another problem. When I turn on the computer I get this error message at startup:
I also get that message if I try to open Windows Defender from Control Panel. Thanks so much for your help. Pooh Bear |
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- Posted by poohbear2767 (My Page) on Wed, May 18, 11 at 0:04
| Web of Trust flagged that site before it could load. I disabled Defender in msconfig and now I don't get the error. Pooh Bear |
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