restoring deleted file

[Claude]

I have windows xp home ed. service pack 1 and i
accidentally deleted System32.exe from the
C:\Windows\System32 folder. Does anyone know how i can
restore this program file? The file isn't in my recycle
bin either. Please don't tell me i have to reinstall
windows xp because i just installed it a week ago.

Thanks for your help,
Claude

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Claude wrote:
> I have windows xp home ed. service pack 1 and i
> accidentally deleted System32.exe from the
> C:\Windows\System32 folder. Does anyone know how i can
> restore this program file? The file isn't in my recycle
> bin either. Please don't tell me i have to reinstall
> windows xp because i just installed it a week ago.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Claude
>

Claude

You appear to have a virus infection on your PC. System32.exe is not a
Windows file.

If you go to Symantec's AV site here: http://www.symantec.com/search/
and search on "system32.exe", you will find that there are seven
viruses/worms/trojans that use that filename. Similarly Sophos' site at
http://www.sophos.com/search/index.cgi reports 34 such nasties.


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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
XP Shell/User

[Ken Blake]

In , Claude wrote:

> I have windows xp home ed. service pack 1 and i
> accidentally deleted System32.exe from the
> C:\Windows\System32 folder. Does anyone know how i can
> restore this program file? The file isn't in my recycle
> bin either. Please don't tell me i have to reinstall
> windows xp because i just installed it a week ago.


No, you don't want that file. It's a virus, and one you probably
got rid of recently. You're now left with a reference to it that
you also need to remove. Read
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.kwbot.c.worm.html
and, assuming that you've already gotten rid of the virus, pay
particular attention to step 4 in the section headed "removal
instructions," near the bottom.

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Ken Blake
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