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by jburke1

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I have a W95 computer that was hit with the Navidad virus last week. I have run through all the 'cleanup' of it but now when I try to start any program with an .exe, it comes up stating 'Windows cannot find .exe This program is needed for opening files of type Appliction' it then asks for the location of .exe. I look under FILE TYPES and for Application it says Control Type (MIME): application/x-msdownload and for Opens With: Command.
All signs of the virus seem to be gone, just cannot openany .exe files. Looked at 2 anti-virus sights and neather say anything about this situation.

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by earnest

I hope this helps:

I looked at my file type and it says open with: [executable].
I looked in my registry and found under HOTKEY_CLASSES_ROOT .exe has two entries.
1. Default "exefile"
2. ContentType "application/x-download"

Try looking at yours. Make a backup first.

I had to say this: Win 98 has a sanreg utility. It lets you make copies of the registry and it makes its own copies. If you had a recent copy before the virus did its deed then you could restore the old registry and theneven found the virus file before it screwed the pooch. After you get it fixed Update to win98_se asap.
Hope the first part helps;
Sorry about the second;

Good luck,
Bo

by tbradley

You need to download a file called navidad.inf to completely fix the problem.

www.pascagoula.k12.ms.us/navidad.inf

save it as navidad.inf right click on file, and select open
- reboot windows

or, you could Cut and paste the following into notepad, and save it as navidad.inf

[Version]
Signature="$Chicago$"

[DefaultInstall.NT]
DelReg=Navidad
AddReg=Fix_Navidad

[DefaultInstall]
DelReg=Navidad
AddReg=Fix_Navidad

[Navidad]
HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run,"Win32BaseServiceMOD"

[Fix_Navidad]
HKCR,exefile\shell\open\command,,0,"""%1"" %*"

>>>>don't cut and paste this line
fix the HKLM and HKCR lines to be all one line, save the file. Right click on it, and select open. Restart windows,and re-run virus scan. You should be fixed.

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