Re: Autoexec.nt file missing?
From: Terry (tllawton_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 11/28/04
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:18:51 -0800
I think I've found the culprit. It's a program called Windows Adcontrol that
has an app named "Windupdate.exe". This program gets put in a computer by a
site where a program is downloaded.
Here's how to fix the problem:
1. Go to Lavasoft.com and download their free ad-aware program called
"Ad-aware-se personal v1.05". After you install it make sure it gets the
lastes definitions (11-25-04 as of this). I ran an earlier version of this
and it didn't find the program.
2. Run the program in the custom settings option with all things checked.
3. This scan of your entire system should pick up any risky ad items. It
should identify this Windupdate program and its registry items.
4. You can select these items found and remove them from your computer.
5. After you have removed the program you should check in your C:/ Program
Files/ folder to see if this program folder is now gone. (You can check for
the folder before the scan if you want to)
6. They warn you that some items you remove could make some of your added
programs not perform. However when you remove these items it puts them in a
quarrantine file in Ad-aware and you can go back and restore any you think
you want or need. I haven't found any that I need to restore. This
quarrantine file is kept and each time you run Ad-aware it adds another file
with the new items found. So don't worry about removing these risk items
found.
I ran this Ad-aware program found the Windupdate program and removed all
reference to it. I then reset the autoexec.nt file in my System32 folder and
when I restarted my computer it did not get deleted as it did in the past.
"Bud Norris" <bdev605@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:uNYq88Y0EHA.1924@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Lots of luck Sebastion! If somehow you can replace the AUTOEXEC.NT file in
> your C:\WINNT\System32| folder AND keep it there, please let me know how
you
> managed it. Everytime I put the file into the system32 folder it is
deleted
> the next time I reboot. No body seems to know why this happens It's
> obviously something to do with the Windows XP file protection feature but
no
> one can tell me what to do to stop the deletion.
> Also when people tell you that the folder you are to put the AUTOEXEC.NT
> file in is your C:\Windows\System32\ folder they are incorrect. It's the
> C:\WINNT\System32| folder. People for some reason keep saying it's the
> C:\Windows|System32 folder. (Ido realize thats what the Microsoft articles
> say but ther're wrong)
> If any of these experts that answered your question can tell me how to
stop
> the deletion problem please do it!
>
> NevBud
>
> Sebastian <Sebastian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AC0C0803-9FC3-40F8-96BF-1CE6116CF993@microsoft.com...
> > "JerryM (ID)" wrote:
> > > The file is located in the Windows\system32 folder
> >
> > I didn't really phrase my question properly. I had already discovered
> that
> > the file is missing from that directory and I was trying to locate
another
> > copy to put there. As I understand it (you can see I'm a new user) this
> used
> > to be windows\driver cache\i386 and [since SP2]
windows\sustem32zdllcache.
> >
> > "Patti MacLeod" suggested two refences. The second wasn't available,
the
> > first was helpful.
> >
> > Thanks for all clues - I'll have more if they're availabe because, being
> > naive, I keep thinking I might learn to understand all this stuff one
day.
> >
> >
>
>
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