Weirdy Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 do you have the option for displaying hidden folders set to enabled? if so, there are some folders in the windows directory that have back ups of important system filese on one of mine I found regedit.exe check yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neptune Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Regedit.com sounds like a virus to me...last I checked regedit was just regedit.exe always has been...don't remember a.com version except maybe back in win95/98 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Regedit has always been EXE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 exactly. thats why i said to delete the com file. it should never exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 (edited) .com is a file compiled straight form assembly was probably some memory virus Edited July 20, 2005 by Weirdy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 .com is a file compiled straight form assembly was probably some memory virusCOM files are a thing of the past, and the only thing that still uses it nowadays is the Commandline Interpreter (Comman.com). COMs were widely used back in the day when DOS was "the" OS. Like most people said already, if you spot a COM file in your computer, it's most likely a virus (although there are exceptions). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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