Explorer.exe won't stay open.

Hmm well on my backup PC the explorer.exe isn't styaing open, on reboot or starting it manually...something is up I tried a repair install with it, still nothing, not sure what's up.

I'm not sure if this should be here or the Malware section but, it's possible it could be a virus or not, I tried safe mode, no avail.

I'm wondering if explorer.exe is corrupt, anyone hgave the intructions on replacing explorer.exe with Recovery console?

If this doesn't work then something weird is at work, problem is there is no weird programs running, i've tried diagnostic startup still nothing.

 

START | RUN | CMD | OK

In the command windows type SFC /SCANNOW

Have your XP cd handy.

 

Yeah I just tried that, half way through it asks for my XP Home Edition CD, which is crazy cause I have it in there lol. So luckily I can stgill run Sonic so I'm backing up data and gonan reformat it I guess.

I thinksomething was up with the Malicous Removal Tool cause I caught a process called "mrtstub.exe" running and I think it infected something.

 

Hey the same thing happened to me! Around the same day you posted if not the same day! Im runing the scan now and ill post if i got diffrent results after its finished.

 

Nope nothing not even a diolog box saying the scan was ok.
By the way mine also does not work in safe mode.
oops forgot to mention that the scan went through compleatly with out error and didnt stop in the middle.

 

mrtstub may or may not be related to malware.

Then again, Microsoft uses this for their Malware removal tool.

So, there could be some malware writer exploiting this. If you are unsure, then I recommend heading on over the the malware forums here at MG, just to be on the safe side.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407