I use AVG antivirus .They have detected a virus and put it in the vault.I am getting messages from windows regarding the stability and to restore the file back. how do i do it or should i ignore it.
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it says files that are required to run windows have been replaced by unrecognized versions and to restore the old files??and the virus is trojan horse? winninet.dll??thanks much appreciated...
2006-08-08 07:53:41 · 7 answers · asked by yellow 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
You should restore the files because I think you mean the file wininet and it is a DLL file that is used by Internet Explorer.
Try replacing it with http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?wininet
This is a site that restores and replaces your damaged Windows Files.
There are forums that discussed this issue and it seems that IE 7.0 has fixed this bug error. If you dont want to install IE 7.0 then just restore the file back to the old ones if it has been corrupted. You might want to do a system restore if the restoration fails.
2006-08-08 08:01:43 · answer #1 · answered by Sean I.T ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do a system restore back to a date before you got the virus. That should restore the dll file.
2006-08-08 08:11:58 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use norton (seems to do well with removal of virus) , here is a 30 day free trial-->http://downloads.yahoo.com/security/index.php
2006-08-08 08:02:53 · answer #3 · answered by unKLe BuCk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could try System Restore if you're running Windows XP.
Then, run Spybot and AdAware. Very reliable free tools you can download from http://www.safer-networking.org/ and http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
McAfee also offer a very useful utility, "Stinger", free at http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ as a one-off tool to remove nasties.
2006-08-08 08:05:17 · answer #4 · answered by smesuwebmaster 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try running one of the two links I've listed below - there free.
2006-08-12 06:09:52 · answer #5 · answered by Sly_Old_Mole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be an option to heal the infected file. Can't you do that? (I own AVG and it rocks!)
2006-08-08 08:02:43 · answer #6 · answered by Xan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to do a repair install of Windows.
2006-08-08 07:57:54 · answer #7 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋