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Offline Chris Thomas

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Open with error after cleaning Virus
« on: April 14, 2010, 06:03:27 PM »
Hey,

After I cleaned a very infected system I am getting an OPEN WITH error when I click any drives

Do you know how to fix this?

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2010, 06:21:56 PM »
send a PM to Essexboy .....

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2010, 06:32:38 PM »
I've already had this in Windows. That's a bug, in my case not the result of any infection, a simple reboot solved it.

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2010, 06:46:19 PM »
Hmm :)

But this was the result of cleaning a virus with ClamWin and Malwarebytes

The Laptop I was fixing was itself a Trojan - ' I had installed Avast Free for him but he uninstalled it out of his ignorance'

I couldn't access the Internet because the virus had blocked everything so I had to do an On-Demand scan

Now, this is the problem

I found many references on Google but I couldn't understand it

For example

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-17978-open-with-appears-when-i-click-c-d-e-d

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2010, 06:48:36 PM »
you should browse the TechNet (Microsoft) forums about that...

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2010, 07:13:19 PM »
 ::) i think the machine is not yet clean ::)
because there is something blocking the explorer.exe to execute,

try to monitor your explorer.exe when you open the drive. it must be active in the task manager

Best Regards!!!

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2010, 08:42:04 PM »
Will you believe this. I got 5321 malware from his system.

 :-X

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2010, 09:17:05 PM »
With those kind of numbers I would seriously be considering a backup of valuable data, forfat and reinstall from scratch.
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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2010, 09:18:17 PM »
Will you believe this. I got 5321 malware from his system.

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something for Guinness World Records .......  ;D

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2010, 09:51:10 PM »
Hello Chris Thomas,
You can try this.
http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Autorun-Virus-from-Hard-Disk-Drives
It is very clearly explained.. :)

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Re: Open with error after cleaning Virus
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2010, 09:30:40 AM »
The amounts of malwares detected is amazing! I detected 108 viruses and malwares in an office computer, you had better backup important data and then reinstall your OS.