So far this has been the ultimate catch-22 for me:
1. McAfee VirusScan was uninstalled on a Win 95 machine.
2. Upon reboot and after the Win desktop appears, an error window now pops up: “Program not found: Webscanx.exe” (or something like this).
3. Here’s the gotcha: apparently, Webscanx.exe has been “associated” with the file type “Application”, and so every time ANY .exe is run it tries to “open” the application with webscanx.exe. But since webscanx.exe has been uninstalled and is no longer to be found on the system, we get the “program not found” error message.
4. It was suggested by McAfee support to edit the registry via Start>Run>regedit, but when I tried this—gotcha!—I got the same “program not found” error message.Again, it was trying to “open” this application (regedit) with webscanx.exe.
5. I thought of reinstalling McAfee, but—gotcha—it won’t run the setup.exe file from the CD!
6. I’m now stuck. I am not a super-duper techno-geek so I’m not sure what to do next. It s
