Re: winlogin.exe

Posted: 08-19-2003, 04:42 PM

Lunaray

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This happened to a computer at work running Windows 2000, it's a government
computer and we use Tivoli to push system updates over the network and
apparently it was because the system froze in the middle of a Service Pack 3
update, the computer won't even boot now. For my situation there's supposed
to be a fix, by downloading and putting a patch on floppies (another patch
to fix a patch), I'm going to try it today. The service pack 3 was a
security patch to protect against Blaster, don't know how this relates to
your problem but I saw your post so I thought I would mention it.

Ray

"Francine" <flm7949@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0d6d01c3665f$47450de0$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> Hey everyone,
>
> After my blaster worm was removed, I notice my XP home
> verion machine started showing a popup during
> startup "winlogin.exe is missing....etc" I've been
> unable to find any mention of this at Microsoft. Where
> can I download this program from and which folder does it
> need to go into ???? Any ideas ???????????
>
> Francine

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Patrick

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Re: winlogin.exe

Posted: 08-19-2003, 05:07 PM

Francine wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> After my blaster worm was removed, I notice my XP home
> verion machine started showing a popup during
> startup "winlogin.exe is missing....etc" I've been
> unable to find any mention of this at Microsoft. Where
> can I download this program from and which folder does it
> need to go into ???? Any ideas ???????????
>
> Francine

Thieres a reference to it at link below (~1/4 way down), seems to have been
created by virus.

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=100549

or

http://tinyurl.com/khs1

Becky Bussell

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winlogin.exe

Posted: 08-28-2003, 04:55 PM

Help anybody!!
I get a message when I start up win XP after I have to
assign a password which I didn't want to do that says I
typed the name wrong or winlogin.exe is not working...It
says to go to files and search for winlogin.exe and it
will fix it.....BUT search files and folders on all
drives can't even find winlogin.exe on my computer....By
the way this was ater I was infected by the blaster.32
virus. Any Help would be appreciated..
Thanks Becky

Doug Knox MS-MVP

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Re: winlogin.exe

Posted: 08-28-2003, 05:24 PM

Winlogin.exe is not a valid Windows file. WINLOGON.EXE is. The problem is
occuring (at least with the Winlogin.exe file) because your AV software
found and deleted the infected file. However, it doesn't remove the Registry
entries that try to load it.

See www.dougknox.com, Win XP Utilities, Remove Registry Entries for
Winlogin.exe. This small utility will scan your System Registry and notify
you if it found any references that try to load Winlogin.exe. If it does
find any, it will allow you to remove them, simply and quickly.

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"Becky Bussell" <b.bussell@alltel.net> wrote in message
news:0d8501c36d7c$d7122a10$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> Help anybody!!
> I get a message when I start up win XP after I have to
> assign a password which I didn't want to do that says I
> typed the name wrong or winlogin.exe is not working...It
> says to go to files and search for winlogin.exe and it
> will fix it.....BUT search files and folders on all
> drives can't even find winlogin.exe on my computer....By
> the way this was ater I was infected by the blaster.32
> virus. Any Help would be appreciated..
> Thanks Becky

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