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wupdmgr.exe is gone
Name: RoSs Date: October 22, 2004 at 02:01:50 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro 2002 SP1 CPU/Ram: Celeton 733/248MB
Comment:
My wupdmgr.exe is gone from windows system directory!!! Instead of wupdmgr.exe in the target field of Windows Update is actmovie.exe! What can i do? Can i copy wupdmgr.exe from another PC in my system directory????????
Name: Krystyna Date: October 22, 2004 at 02:18:13 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried using the link to Windows Update in IE / Tools ?
Krystyna
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Response Number 2
Name: Richard59 Date: October 22, 2004 at 02:21:23 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like you have been infected. Try a search in windows explorer for the file. you may find another copy in the system32 dll cache. But you will have to clean out the spyware/malware. Could even be a virus. A quick google for actmovie.exe brought up a heap of hits that mention worms. Good luck.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.
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Response Number 3
Name: salgolf Date: October 22, 2004 at 04:22:39 Pacific
Reply:
Run an AV scan, and download AdAware, Spybot, and CWShredder, install them, update them, and run. Delete anything that looks suspicious. Some ad-vise deleting everything because it's all reversible. Also get SpyWare Blaster which keeps a list of bad stuff on your computer and blocks them from being installed (theoretically). Be sure your independent (not MS’s) firewall is enabled.
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