Comments on: C:\resycled\boot.com is not a valid Win32 application

By: pamela18

pamela18 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:21:41 +0000

How to remove resycled/boot.com

http://www.tips29.com/2009/01/how-to-remove-resycledbootcom.html

By: Enigma

Enigma — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:20:29 +0000

To get rid of the PROBLEM

Open a command prompt. Start > Run… [type in]
cmd > Ok
At the prompt, enter the following commands:

attrib -h -r -s C:\Autorun.inf

del C:\Autorun.inf

attrib -h -r -s D:\Autorun.inf

del D:\Autorun.inf

attrib -h -r -s E:\Autorun.inf

del E:\Autorun.inf

etc.
(do this for every drive letter (C: D: E: etc) and do NOT open any drives with
Explorer until you’re completed)

This works if you follow to the letter

By: ITWASNTME

ITWASNTME — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:22:22 +0000

Try turning off system restore on all hard drives, delete all previous restore point and then restart, some viruses use it to reinstall themselves.

By: korokmu

korokmu — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:35:38 +0000

Thanks for the responses guys! Hope that adam got his problem solved.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:31:51 +0000

One other thing you need to do is go into your system32 folder and sort by date modified. Look for any recently made dll’s that have names made of bunches of letters that are nonsense. For example, the one I found on my PC was msqpdxbeaturkv.dll. Delete any dll’s that have long nonsense names like that and then delete the resycled folder and autorun.inf. They didn’t come back for me. And then do your registry scan. Good luck!

By: Fahim

Fahim — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:53:44 +0000

Well, u have to untick the option
Hide Protected System Files
in the Tools>Folder options>view
(You can get tools from any folder, its on top of the toolbar)

Hope this Helps

By: korokmu

korokmu — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:14:41 +0000

Have you tried logging to Windows using SafeMode?

Maybe the virus comes again from any of your removable media, e.g. USB Sticks, External Hardisk etc. . Have you scanned all of them?

By: adam

adam — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:16:26 +0000

i formatted my hd reinstalled windows its still there…full system scan didn’t detect anything, searched for any boot.com instances in the registry and deleted and its still there…….. ahhhhhhhhhhhh