Re: change system.ini

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/06/03 

Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 10:24:59 -0500

The Symantec article is written more for 9x systems than Windows 2000/XP.
Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Locate the Shell value in the right pane. It should read "explorer.exe"
or "Explorer.exe", without the quotes. Your's probably reads "explorer.exe
dust.exe". Right click the Shell value and select Modify. Change it so
that it only reads Explorer.exe 

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"Ash" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:08ef01c3bbf4$87c5fe20$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> recently my computer infected with the "w32.hllw.studd"
> virus.  Thanks to NAV I managed to find it quickly.
> However, everytime I boot up my computer i get a message
> saying that "Dust.exe" could not be found and that the
> file may have been moved or renamed.  So I looked on the
> NAV website on how to remove this problem permanently.
> Atfer reading the document I have to change my system.ini
> file as the virus seems to have copied itself into there
> somehow and as a result Dust.exe wants to be loaded up at
> startup.  The website suggests that there is a section in
> the system.ini file that looks something like this:
>
> shell = Explorer.exe dust.exe
>
> however when I open my system.ini file i dont have that
> section in it so how can I change the file?
>
> thanks for any help
>
> Ash
>

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