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Kay - 12 Jun 2006 02:05 GMT

My computer tells me it can not find "winword.exe". It has only happened a
couple times, but now it is preventing my daughter from working on an online
class. I have Windows 98 and I have tried to search for the file and I can't
find it either.
What does winword.exe start? My wordpad works fine. Does anyone know what I
should do? I would appreciate any advice. Thank You, Kay
My address is Kay00 at joimail dot com.

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Jeff Richards - 12 Jun 2006 03:03 GMT

Winword.exe is the executable file for Microsoft WORD. But if you don't
have WORD then it could be a trojan. The message you are seeing would occur
if your anti-virus detected and quarantined the file, but you did not remove
the infection correctly.

See, for instance:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.drivus.html

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> My computer tells me it can not find "winword.exe". It has only happened a
> couple times, but now it is preventing my daughter from working on an
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> should do? I would appreciate any advice. Thank You, Kay
> My address is Kay00 at joimail dot com.

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