Explorer.exe error

Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been
acting very slow – the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load
programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less
than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I
have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot – no issues, McAfee – no issues and
then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not
continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled
files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984. I
attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under DOS.

I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors that
needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk – thorough/surface
scan – although it took several hours there were no errors. I then started
the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power outage
– off and then back on – early in the morning which caused the computer to
reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message – Explorer has
caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe. I tried a recommendation to
boot up in Command prompt and rename C:\explorer.exe to explorer.old. It
indicated that it could not find it in C:, I then renamed the explorer.exe in
C:\Windows. That didn’t work either.

I decided to reinstall Windows 98 SE over my existing installation.
Everything was fine until the final boot. Same explorer.exe error. Then I
decided to extract explorer.exe from the CABS file on the CD. Reinstalled
Windows again – same explorer.exe error. Left the computer on and came back
an hour later and found that it completed booting up with several errors.
Closed the errors and Windows is running, but I’m not sure it is without any
problems.

Any suggestions or thoughts?

"sheppardwk" wrote in message
...

Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been
acting very slow – the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to
load
programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new
(less
than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I
have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot – no issues, McAfee – no issues
and
then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not
continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled
files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984.
I
attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under
DOS.

Delete all these files under DOS.
You can boot DOS from a floppy if necessary
to do so. Also delete all non-necessary files
(Temp. Internet Files, c:\temp\*.* etc.) before
runnning SCANDISK.

Post back here immediately if you cannot
dellete these garbled files in DOS, describing
symptoms in full.

Since this hard drive is 80 per cent empty there
is no point in running DEFRAG.

I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors
that
needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk –
thorough/surface
scan – although it took several hours there were no errors. I then
started
the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power
outage
– off and then back on – early in the morning which caused the
computer to
reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message – Explorer
has
caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe.

Your post did not say you ran SCANDISK before
attempting to repair or reinstal Windows. After a
power failure this is essential.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

From: "sheppardwk"

| Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been
| acting very slow – the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load
| programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less
| than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I
| have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot – no issues, McAfee – no issues and
| then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not
| continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled
| files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984. I
| attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under DOS.
|
| I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors that
| needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk – thorough/surface
| scan – although it took several hours there were no errors. I then started
| the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power outage
| – off and then back on – early in the morning which caused the computer to
| reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message – Explorer has
| caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe. I tried a recommendation to
| boot up in Command prompt and rename C:\explorer.exe to explorer.old. It
| indicated that it could not find it in C:, I then renamed the explorer.exe in
| C:\Windows. That didn’t work either.
|
| I decided to reinstall Windows 98 SE over my existing installation.
| Everything was fine until the final boot. Same explorer.exe error. Then I
| decided to extract explorer.exe from the CABS file on the CD. Reinstalled
| Windows again – same explorer.exe error. Left the computer on and came back
| an hour later and found that it completed booting up with several errors.
| Closed the errors and Windows is running, but I’m not sure it is without any
| problems.
|
| Any suggestions or thoughts?


Explorer.exe doesn't belong in c:\ and if it is there and you didn't copy
c:\windows\explorer.exe to c:\ then this code be the CodeRed worm which creates the CodeRed
Trojan as c:\explorer.exe..

W32/CodeRed.c.worm -- http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99177.htm

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.


* * * Please report back your results * * *



--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm