Peaches Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Bitdefender and GData delete winlogon system file Anti-virus programs by Bitdefender and GData issued a signature update last week that identified the file "winlogon.exe" as a trojan (Trojan.Generic.1423603) and, if set up appropriately, simply deleted it. Both vendors have, in the meantime, announced that this is a false alarm and have made an update available to resolve the issue. Users who have not yet installed this update are advised to block file access, carry out a signature update and restart their computers. If the "winlogon.exe" file has already been deleted, it needs to be restored into the c:\Windows\system32 directory via the Windows recovery console. Then the computer must be restarted in safe mode and the virus scanner's auto-start option in the system tray, manually disabled. Next, the computer must be restarted in normal mode, the anti-virus update downloaded and "automatic" autostart, in the virus scanner's pop-up menu re-enabled, followed by a final restart. Heise Security - http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Bit...e--/news/112652 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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