[JSntgRvr]

Hi, onedavester

Sorry to learn that. The fact is that we found nothing that could contribute to this issue. If the culprit is a Master Boot Record virus, I would have run Fixboot in the recovery console. That would erase anything that does not belong there.

The only reason I did not suggested that before was because you have no problems booting the computer. But now that you are willing to reformat, I would go for it.

If that does not resolve the issue, then I would see no other option but to reformat and reinstall Windows.

[raddbgt]

HELLO
I JUST CAME TO SAY ONE THING
nothn anti v
is the best thing in my pc
it's the only anti v that removed that anoyying cop.exe trojn from my pc as it did to your pc
for nobs you must update 1st then scan after that go to each drive you have with the IE (rigth clik then explor) and delet the autorun.inf(you well find it in c:\ d:\ f:\ etc) then rest or log off and log in agin
simpel isn't it
and your pc is clean now, that's all
sorry for my english
engoy your pc as clean as it can be
bye

[Ali709]

Alright, altho it's all been said and the thread is marked as solved, I would like to mention a few things.
First, this is my first post here, found the place with google trying to save this copy.exe problem.
Second, I'm gonna explain the problem for any future readers. This is what happened to me: My anti virus (panda antivirus + firewall 2007) after scanning C: found copy.exe as a threat (The scan was after having used an infected USB flash disk, that's where the problem started from I guess) and deleted it.
After that when trying to open ANY drives wether on my internal HD, external or even the usb flashdisk it gave the error mentioned before "Windows cannot find 'copy.exe' blah blah". Don't panic, you can access your drive by right clicking and choosing open. Why is that? Because if you look in the right click menu, the highlighted (default) option is Autoplay! That's what "raddbgt" mentioned, on all these drives there is a autorun.inf file which is the reason for the Autoplay. The Autoplay is supposed to run copy.exe each time you double click on a driveand once copy.exe is deleted, it will give you the error above.
The solution is to go to each of the drives and delete autorun.inf. After a reboot or logging of and logging in the problem will be totally solved.
BTW, thanks for the great forums
-Ali

[onedavester]

What do you mean by go to each drive? If you open the C drive for instance, ther is no autorun.inf file there.

[Ali709]

Hmm...as I have deleted the files I can't check it out, but maybe it's a hidden file, have you enabled the option to see hidden files?
If the drive you are checking still has the copy.exe error and when you right click the highlighted (first) option is Autoplay, then there has to be an autorun file, maybe with some other extension right in the drive (not in any folders).

[onedavester]

I do have show hidden files set. I have long since fixed this issue but since you brought this topic back to life, i thought I would look into it in case it ever happens again. I will tell you that I won't ever run a Symantec product again. I am happily running AVG free, Adaware SE, and Spybot S&D with all the protection I need, no problems and more money in the bank.

[Ali709]

Well, if you HAVE fixed it, then there shouldn't be such thing as a autoron.inf, if the file is there AND there is no copy.exe that's when the error comes up. I THINK that it is some kind of a virus that puts a copy.exe and a autorun.inf file in your drive, so that whenever you double click on the drive's icon to open it, the copy.exe is run and does whatever it's supposed to do. Because if copy.exe was a normal thing, something that was supposed to be there, then you would see a autorun.inf file in the drive too.

[onedavester]

Some good thoughts there. Welcome to the forums. I know you will enjoy the family atmosphere here.

[Cookiegal]

This is the Perlovga worm and there is a fix for it created by sUBs.

Be sure the flash drives are connected when running this fix.

Download and run this file - W32.Perlovga.Remover.exe:

http://www.techsupportforum.com/sect...ga.Remover.exe

[burning_ice]

I had the same problem due to a USB transfer...
YOu can try to go to regedit and locate this HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountP oints2

I deleted MOuntpoints and i can open again C and D drives...
Go try

[burning_ice]

I tried it Cookiegal, but that was it? It just said done...

[Cookiegal]

Originally Posted by burning_ice

I tried it Cookiegal, but that was it? It just said done...

It should be, yes. If you just delete the Mountpoints2 key without addressing the infection, it will return.

[Acer2]

Ali709's suggestion works. I had just developed the same problem on my machine & after deleting the autorun.inf file on each hard drive no more issue . You have to untick the "hide system files" in the folder view options to see the autorun file but that was it.

Thanks very much Ali709 .

Cheers,

Acer2

[Cookiegal]

Some autorun.inf files are valid. You have to check the contents before deleting it.

[rc3hz]

i've already delete it but still got the same problem... Need some help here... Pls...