Re: Spybot, win.ini "process can not access file. . .

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From: Sven Pran (no.direct_at_mail.please)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:44:38 +0200


"Ed H" <w.whatkey@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:On1kMF7uEHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Running Spybot I keep getting an error: "Error during check!: Cabrotor
> (Datei C:\WINDOWS\win.ini kann nicht geöffnet werden. The process cannot
> access the file because it is being used by another process" Any ideas?
> --
> Ed H
> Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Professional SP2
> 60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

I first encountered the same problem with reference to BackOrifice.B
and Wininit.ini (see my report to the thread "Spybot S&D Users"), and
after fixing that I got this error message.

Wininit.ini was indeed unaccessible except when in safe mode but
win.ini is not "in use" so I stronogly suspect that this is just a
problem in Spybot.

I have inspected win.ini for suspicious contents without finding anything.
In fact the message is not a warning of any infection, it is literally a
warning that Spybot could not get access to win.ini for scanning.

Sven



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