[Merged] False Positive...explorer.exe?, Worm.Win32.Huhk.c Options

[kharzan1]

insert your xp cd into the drive. open start>run and type in sfc /scannow. wait for the scan to complete and reboot the system

No success with attempting that, kept asking for the original CD as I have an OEM one. Then I attempted to reinstall windows in its entirety and was stopped when asked for my NVIDIA Bus Installation Disk #1 which I dont have and have no idea what it is!

So I'm currently stuck with a super slow computer, which wont connect on the internet (stick stuck on 'acquiring network address') this is very bad

Also in regards to a later question, I have a dynamic IP address, if that helps at all.

[Lucian Bara]

don't you have a disk from your motherboard? try to insert that. are you reinstallnig windows from within windows or did you boot from the windows cd?

[kharzan1]

don't you have a disk from your motherboard? try to insert that. are you reinstallnig windows from within windows or did you boot from the windows cd?

from within windows. I do have a motherboard cd but it doesnt say NVIDIA on it, is that the right one?

[Lucian Bara]

nvidia is your chipset manufacturer (the chipset on your motherboard). it's probably that one.

[Don Pelotas]

from within windows. I do have a motherboard cd but it doesnt say NVIDIA on it, is that the right one?

Just download a driver from the Nvidia site.

[kharzan1]

Ok so I found the driver within the ASUS CD I had and completed the repair of windows (this time from outside windows itself, from the CD boot) and it unfortunately repaired nothing. Still takes forever for the computer to get into windows from booting up and I cant get onto the internet. My more techy friend has suggested a complete windows reinstallation otherwise wiping the computer completely, which I have to say doesnt sound overly appealing.

Any advice to avoid this situation would be greatly appreciated.

[vproman]

Looks like this is getting some attention outside the Kaspersky forums:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6223836.html

[Farnk69]

Ok so I found the driver within the ASUS CD I had and completed the repair of windows (this time from outside windows itself, from the CD boot) and it unfortunately repaired nothing. Still takes forever for the computer to get into windows from booting up and I cant get onto the internet. My more techy friend has suggested a complete windows reinstallation otherwise wiping the computer completely, which I have to say doesnt sound overly appealing.

Any advice to avoid this situation would be greatly appreciated.

This may be out in left field. I wondering if one or more of your prefetch files is messed up.

These can be deleted see:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_...refetch-XP.html

You can find other Sites that contradict this Site, however, consider deleting all prefetch files, reboot, & see what happens.
C:\Windows\Prefetch\

They will rebuild themselves if you do not change the registry value. A second reboot hopefully shows an improvement.

What the h_ll, won't hurt & may work, for the slow startup anyway.

Techies almost always want to reformat, it's too time consuming to find the real problem, which is usually very simple when found.
And you wouldn't want to pay their price when they do find it. I didn't, so did my own debugging.

Keep Googleing & trying

I've had very serious problems over the years, but somehow managed to eventually solve them without a reformat & reinstall.
I have a huge amount of data over many years in several locations and formats. I never accepted the reformat, reinstall solution.
Started with Windows, Windows for Workgroups etc up to XP Pro SP2 without a reformat & it runs well. Well enough to do Solids CAD Design.

Frank

[sapien_red]

Hi guys,

Will raise this with viruslab as a matter of urgency.... it would help if someone could grab a copy of explorer.exe, and send it to newvirus@kaspersky.com with "false positive" in the title.

Try to update, because my defs are not flagging.

the file explorer.exe is an update to explorer found in :- WindowsXP-KB938828-x86-ENU.exe
i deleted the explorer and the cache'd one (and had to duel boot and find a copy of explorer on sp2 cdrom
windows update on automatic is downloading and reinstalling the new (false pos) explorer.exe
LOOPs anyone...
1) are microsoft or nsa pushing a trojian explorer to overseas update users?
2) would you tell us the truth?
i will be turning off automatic updates for the patching period
and using the older explorer (read-only and no write permissions for anyone including me)
i had noticed , explorer.exe was running x2 with a clone of itself /IDLIST & & & (logging?)
what diabolical scheme to close down prirate computers are they upto now?
"well if they downgrade to xp we will have to introduce RFM to xp" lol
an update solves the problem? it that because you've been nobbled?
sapien-red

[Don Pelotas]

the file explorer.exe is an update to explorer found in :- WindowsXP-KB938828-x86-ENU.exe
i deleted the explorer and the cache'd one (and had to duel boot and find a copy of explorer on sp2 cdrom
windows update on automatic is downloading and reinstalling the new (false pos) explorer.exe
LOOPs anyone...
1) are microsoft or nsa pushing a trojian explorer to overseas update users?
2) would you tell us the truth?
i will be turning off automatic updates for the patching period
and using the older explorer (read-only and no write permissions for anyone including me)
i had noticed , explorer.exe was running x2 with a clone of itself /IDLIST & & & (logging?)
what diabolical scheme to close down prirate computers are they upto now?
"well if they downgrade to xp we will have to introduce RFM to xp" lol
an update solves the problem? it that because you've been nobbled?
sapien-red

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