how to check windows system files integrity?

how to check windows system files integrity? (to be sure no files has been
replaced or corrupted, after spyware screensaver removing).

thanks.

Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc

SANTANDER wrote:
how to check windows system files integrity? (to be sure no files has been
replaced or corrupted, after spyware screensaver removing).

thanks.

"Bill in Co." wrote in
:

Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc

Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time since I
saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless to say) posted
here.

[A few minutes later...]

Follow up question, if I may:

Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one
ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad"
(setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to
check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which
replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad",
EITHER!

Is this just another example of the quality of MS products or
what?



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thanatoid wrote in
:

[A few minutes later...]

Just happened to do my once-a-month check on my throwaway
hotmail account.

"© 2008 Microsoft Corporation" (Only the log-in page, the others
still say 2007... Of course...)

It's not 2008 in Redmond yet!

Sigh.


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The only cure for brilliance is death.
The only cure for love is death.
The only cure for hate is death.
Indifference needs no cure.
The only cure for life is death.
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"Bill in Co." wrote in
:

Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc

"thanatoid" wrote in message
...

Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time since I
saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless to say) posted
here.

[A few minutes later...]

Follow up question, if I may:

Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one
ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad"
(setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to
check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which
replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad",
EITHER!

SFC = System File Checker is a crude tool. When you
installed Win98 the process created a checklist of CRCs
of system files: and running SFC later merely assembles
a current list of system files and compares them with
the check list. The catch is that the original list is not
updated, so if MS updates an OS file (using the same
filename) it may wrongly report itself as bad because
rightly changed. All we can do is look at file / Properties
for version number and date, to guess this point.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

thanatoid wrote:
"Bill in Co." wrote in
:

Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc

Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time since I
saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless to say) posted
here.

[A few minutes later...]

Follow up question, if I may:

Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different one
ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was "bad"
(setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but backed it up to
check it later. It is /exactly/ the same as the file which
replaced it - and which was /not/ flagged by SFC as "bad",
EITHER!

Is this just another example of the quality of MS products or
what?

Probably karma for having a hotmail account

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"dadiOH" wrote in
:

thanatoid wrote:
"Bill in Co." wrote in
:

Run SFC at the prompt: Start, Run, sfc

Well, what do you know. Thanks. It's been a long time
since I saw any useful info (and unknown to me, needless
to say) posted here.

[A few minutes later...]

Follow up question, if I may:

Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different
one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was
"bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but
backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same
as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/
flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER!

Is this just another example of the quality of MS products
or what?

Probably karma for having a hotmail account


:-D

Hey, I wouldn't have one but I need it for stuff which is
certain to generate junkmail etc.

I have a "secret" real pop3 account which I pay $15/year for and
which hardly /ever/ got any junk mail until the recent wave
began about 10 months ago (or something).

"Don Phillipson" wrote in
:

SNIP

"thanatoid" wrote in message
...

SNIP

Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different
one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was
"bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but
backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same
as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/
flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER!

SFC = System File Checker is a crude tool. When you
installed Win98 the process created a checklist of CRCs
of system files: and running SFC later merely assembles
a current list of system files and compares them with
the check list. The catch is that the original list is not
updated, so if MS updates an OS file (using the same
filename) it may wrongly report itself as bad because
rightly changed. All we can do is look at file /
Properties for version number and date, to guess this
point.

Thanks for your comment.

I thought that's basically how it worked, and "crude" is sort of
a given ;-)

Still, the date, size AND contents (checked with Total
Commander's "compare by content") all match EXACTLY, so it
/shouldn't/ have
flagged it.

Also, that machine has no internet connection ability and I have
never seen a change to/with that file in my InCtrl4 logs which I
use religiously with every single install ever.

Oh well...

Corrupted Setupx.dll After Installing Windows 98 Second Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231793

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"thanatoid" wrote in message
...
"Don Phillipson" wrote in
:

SNIP

"thanatoid" wrote in message
...

SNIP

Besides calc.exe (which I have replaced with a different
one ages ago), SFC found only one other file which was
"bad" (setupx.dll) so I allowed it to replace it but
backed it up to check it later. It is /exactly/ the same
as the file which replaced it - and which was /not/
flagged by SFC as "bad", EITHER!

SFC = System File Checker is a crude tool. When you
installed Win98 the process created a checklist of CRCs
of system files: and running SFC later merely assembles
a current list of system files and compares them with
the check list. The catch is that the original list is not
updated, so if MS updates an OS file (using the same
filename) it may wrongly report itself as bad because
rightly changed. All we can do is look at file /
Properties for version number and date, to guess this
point.

Thanks for your comment.

I thought that's basically how it worked, and "crude" is sort of
a given ;-)

Still, the date, size AND contents (checked with Total
Commander's "compare by content") all match EXACTLY, so it
/shouldn't/ have
flagged it.

Also, that machine has no internet connection ability and I have
never seen a change to/with that file in my InCtrl4 logs which I
use religiously with every single install ever.

Oh well...

On 01 Jan 2008 05:27:49 GMT, thanatoid put
finger to keyboard and composed:

thanatoid wrote in
:

[A few minutes later...]

Just happened to do my once-a-month check on my throwaway
hotmail account.

"© 2008 Microsoft Corporation" (Only the log-in page, the others
still say 2007... Of course...)

It's not 2008 in Redmond yet!

Sigh.

I have a throwaway account with Yahoo. It allows for POP access via my
email client which means that I never need to visit the ad-infested
Yahoo web site. I believe that Microsoft/Hotmail also provide POP
access, but only to selected users.

- Franc Zabkar
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