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SOME NEW VIRUS................PROB INSTALLING APPLICATIONS

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hansraj
hansraj Original post #1
Dec 22, 2004 at 9:51 PM
any one there who can figure out the problem iam facing............... my problem is probably some virus because of which i am unable to install few of the applications. it gives a message "16 bit windows subsystem" and below the details come as"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.The system file is not suitable for running msdos and microsoft windows applications, choose close to terminate the application. " and it has two options of close and ignore. Both of them close the window thereafter.

My operating system is windows xp prof, 256 mb ram , p 4 1.7 Ghz and iam using norton antivirus 2005 with its latest updates.

However not all the applications show this error, but few of them have started showing this prob lately including the downloaded intelligent updater of NAV Update which is of the bigger size( 8 Mb), the smaller update of about 5 mb doesnt have any prob. also few dat files of size 0 kb appear in the C drive with names as 1,3,4,5,6 and 7.dat with one cc.txt file without any text.
i have already tried all adware removal applications but no joy......
SAVE MY PC.........................................
R
ramank #2
Dec 22, 2004 at 10:07 PM
See this and this.
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