SineCosine
I'm still looking for my Tangent
- Reaction score
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My PC recently got hit by a virus -____-
I don't know who the culprit (Who downloaded a virus) is, but it happened.
Anyways, one day, I turned my PC on and a few pop-up windows appeared telling me that winlogincrucial.exe was trying to access a protected file.
I thought, "Weird, definitely a virus -____-"
So, I tried to delete winlogincrucial.exe
Negative, the PC can't find it at all.
I, then, opened the task manager.
I couldn't find explorer.exe
Instead, explorer1.exe took its place
So, I closed explorer1.exe and ran it again via the task manager.
Oh, hohoho, winlogincrucial.exe sprang up again.
So, I figured the virus must have deleted my explorer.exe file and replaced it with explorer1.exe
I did the first thing that came to mind..
I deleted explorer1.exe and it's .pf file (recycle bin, it's still there, haven't cleared it)
And tried to re-install SP3 to get back explorer.exe
Well, it sort of worked.
01) winlogincrucial.exe no longer runs
02) My explorer.exe file is back
But these are the drawbacks and what I need to fix =/
01) explorer.exe does not run on start
02) When I run it manually via the task manager..
No Start Menu appears, no task bar shows up, no desktop, nothing.
03) Instead, a browser opens with the beginning directory: C:/Documents and Settings/User
So.. Yea.
How would I get explorer.exe to start working.. Before the virus hit.
I don't get how a re-install of SP3 didn't fix it, since this explorer.exe is clean
By the way, the version of explorer.exe I have with me now is 6.0.2900.5512 >.>
Any help will be appreciated
I don't know who the culprit (Who downloaded a virus) is, but it happened.
Anyways, one day, I turned my PC on and a few pop-up windows appeared telling me that winlogincrucial.exe was trying to access a protected file.
I thought, "Weird, definitely a virus -____-"
So, I tried to delete winlogincrucial.exe
Negative, the PC can't find it at all.
I, then, opened the task manager.
I couldn't find explorer.exe
Instead, explorer1.exe took its place
So, I closed explorer1.exe and ran it again via the task manager.
Oh, hohoho, winlogincrucial.exe sprang up again.
So, I figured the virus must have deleted my explorer.exe file and replaced it with explorer1.exe
I did the first thing that came to mind..
I deleted explorer1.exe and it's .pf file (recycle bin, it's still there, haven't cleared it)
And tried to re-install SP3 to get back explorer.exe
Well, it sort of worked.
01) winlogincrucial.exe no longer runs
02) My explorer.exe file is back
But these are the drawbacks and what I need to fix =/
01) explorer.exe does not run on start
02) When I run it manually via the task manager..
No Start Menu appears, no task bar shows up, no desktop, nothing.
03) Instead, a browser opens with the beginning directory: C:/Documents and Settings/User
So.. Yea.
How would I get explorer.exe to start working.. Before the virus hit.
I don't get how a re-install of SP3 didn't fix it, since this explorer.exe is clean
By the way, the version of explorer.exe I have with me now is 6.0.2900.5512 >.>
Any help will be appreciated