HELP...SirC32.exe.

[Westat1]

I am receiving an error message looking for SirC32.exe.

What is it and how can I get rid of it? My PC won't boot up

Thanks

[Chris_R]

It's a virus - looks like by the message someone already erased the dangerous part, but I am not sure - simply type the name of the exe into google and you will get plenty of fixes.

[deejay]

Yep, virus.

I suggest you don't go pick up virus fixes from general searches though.

Nasty things happen that way... partial fixes that make you complacent, viruses disguised as fixes, fixes that just generally screw up your machine worse than it ever was.

Stick with the specialists. www.symantec.com, www.mcafee.com often have manual fixes (ie, you don't need to be using their software). My recommendation for a first stop though is always www.f-secure.com. Better info, more manual fixes and very up to date as a rule.

[2oddSox]

I've just spent last weekend getting rid of that nasty for a friend. It completely knocked out her desktop, icons, and all it left was the wallpaper.

As Deejay has suggested, go to symantec.com - they have a small proggy that you can download that that will search for the files and remove them (you can run it from a floppy). In the case I had I was able to restore a previous registry setting using scanreg /restore (it was a WIN98 machine) and then I ran the Symantec tool in Safe Mode. Even tho' it was able to get rid of the virus files, I decided to do a back up of the data and then a complete re-format and re-installation of the OS as I'd heard somewhere that this virus affects the Windows installer program as well. Better to be safe than sorry.

Any of the sites listed by the others will give you a huge number of leads for dealing with it. It's a well-known bug.

Good luck,

2odd...

[Chris_R]

On second thought - I have to concur with the above two recommendations.