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waka
03-10-2009, 10:52 PM
Hello,
I got infected by a spyware/addware like a week ago.
I believe I got it by using Internet explorer. I made a mistake by clicking one of my spam email and what the link did was to address me to a porn site that had many popups and all that crap.
Nowdays what I see everytime I open My PC or explorer.exe the text headers are: "Huge" as for "Hard drive disks"; "...a website" as for "External Hard drives"; and "Unspecified" as for "Others"

I've tried googling this, but I ran out of ideas for such search.

By header titles I meant those texts that have blue lines under the text...

I've tried fixing it by using Lavasoft Ad-ware, Registry Booster, booting in safe-mode and still with the same issue.

Any ideas of how I can restore those texts / searching keywords would be hepful for my sucky english :(

Oh by the way I'm currently using XP Professional.

Thanks,
haapy
03-11-2009, 03:44 PM
Open My Computer, right click on the device, click Rename and rename it.
GoneToPlaid
03-11-2009, 05:10 PM
Somebody needs to create a REG file which will restore the default values for explorer names, drive icons and such. That would be handy.
haapy
03-12-2009, 02:40 AM
GTP, start programming!
waka
03-14-2009, 12:41 AM
Open My Computer, right click on the device, click Rename and rename it.
Hello thanks for your response,
I wish it was easy as that, but that process cannot be made by right clicking..

I added a screenshot

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7636/corruptedexplorerexe.jpg

Is it possible to do? to restore such headers or I dont have any option other than formatting?
The bug/virus did not fire my anti-virus (Kaspersky) what makes this thing really weird in my opinion. The IE(version 6) crashes sometimes nowdays, but it doesnt really matter, I'm using Firefox now.


Any ideas are apreciated!
haapy
03-14-2009, 04:03 AM
I have never seen this one before. I can do some research for you, but it will be awhile before I can get to it.
haapy
03-14-2009, 04:09 PM
This is just a guess on my part, but I think that perhaps explorer.exe got compromised.

My version is 6.0.2900.5512 dated 8/4/2004 .98MB

You might try copying a good version from another computer or do a search on your PC to see if you have another copy in i386 or someplace else.
Ayush
03-15-2009, 10:07 PM
Simply right click > Arrange Icons by > Type
waka
03-31-2009, 06:58 PM
thank you guys,
I followed your instructions Ayush and it worked just fine.

happy, on my other pc I think I have the same explorer.exe version, I'm going to try that too!

Thanks again for your help,
:D
GoneToPlaid
03-31-2009, 07:27 PM
I came across a similar issue on a friend's computer. Windows explorer was frequently showing the file name's file type in place of the file size in the file size column. The free version of MalwareBytes's Anti-Malware quickly found the problem and fixed it. So, its worth a shot to see if it can quickly fix this similar issue.