two EXPLORER.EXEs. Virus ?

From: B.Y. (ecxzDELETETHIS@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/09/03 

From: "B.Y." <ecxzDELETETHIS@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:00:33 -0800

Hi,

I'm running Windows 2000 SP3, and my Windows root directory is "C:\W2K". By
chance I noticed in task manager that there're 2 explorer.exe's running,
looking into it further, I found out that there're 2 files named
explorer.exe in my windows folder.

The first file is "c:\w2k\explorer.exe", it's 242960 bytes long and it looks
like it's the shell explorer.exe.

The second file is "c:\w2k\system32\explorer.exe", but I don't know what it
is. It's 245,760 bytes long, has no version info, and has no resource in it
(opening it as resource, VC returned error "cannot enumerate resources in
the executable"). Furthermore, in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, there's an entry to it
so it's run at system start. Renaming this file and deleting the registry
entry don't seem to affect the system at all.

So my question is, is this explorer.exe part of OS or some kind of virus ?

If anyone wants to take a look at this file, please email me at yahoo.com,
email name is ecxz.

Thanks, By

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