Avast update brings virus ???

[bob3160]

Do the update. I just did and the false positive is gone.

[jembow]

I have the 8/3/04 version of Avast on that system and still my problem launching "explorer.exe"

At startup a DOS window launches and for a split second I can see the "Program too big to fit in memory" error message  - attempts to start "explorer.exe" through the command window yeild the same results.

Thanks,
-John

[stoffell]

Avast vps file version should be 0432-1.

This could be something else in my opinion.
what version of service pack are you using? I suggest updating to sp4.

start internet explorer in the taskmgr (iexplore) and then browse to the windows download site. you can also "browse" to your local folder (c:\ for example..)

(you can get an alternative to explorer if you launch taskmanager (ctrl-alt-del-> taskmanager) and in the file->run box you enter progman  (it's the old windows gui)

[levinut]

I did not re-install.
All I did was copy explorer.exe from I386 directory to WINNT directory and rebooted.
Everything works now!  Thanks to all who helped.

[jembow]

SP4 did the trick - thanks!

-John