I broke something... again

[Azlier]

**Da sovietled.**

Right. After my first battle with the horrible av.exe virus, I was victorious.

So now I caught it again. Ugh. These drive-by viruses are the annoying. So I went into the registry and found some key for av.exe. Being the fool I am, I deleted it. Now every time I try to use a program, I get this.

"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel."

I can only run things without "protection from potential malicious behavior" now. Real annoying.

Halp?

 

[Samuraid]

Some viruses change the association for .exe files in the registry to themselves. That way, they act as a wrapper for any user-space .exe file that gets run (similar to how a Trojan virus works).

You will need to edit the registry and remove the invalid file association (it's probably in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, or any of the user-specific overlays in the registry, or do a recovery install of windows using the windows CD.

 

[Azlier]

Sadly I edited the registry and now every time I open a file it wants to know why the 'checker' file doesn't exist.

I was hoping there was an easy fix. 'Twould be nice to know what the default .exe association is.

EDIT:

Fixed. Malwarebytes can do anything.