I need help

Monday, February 14, 2005 by _02 | Discussion: Windows XP

Does anyone know what can change the shell32.dll? When I ran my virus scan today it said that my shell32.dll was changed. It is not a virus and I do not see any performance difference. I just don;t know what changed it. Thanks in advance for any help.
butch123
Reply #1 Monday, February 14, 2005 5:54 PM
Hey Cindi ..a shell32.dll is part of your windows system 32 files if I can remember. If you are not experiencing any problems my advice would be to just not worry about it. Sometimes an anti-virus will misevaluate. It could be just nothing. Hope this helped.
Essencay
Reply #2 Monday, February 14, 2005 5:55 PM
Okay I'm running XP Home SP2 and it's up to date. This is what version of shell32.dll I have on my PC.

Version: 6.02900.2578
Size: 8.05MB
Created: 12/13/2004
Modified: 12/21/2004

Don't know if that info helps you any. Best I got since I've never had that happen to me.
_02
Reply #3 Monday, February 14, 2005 7:22 PM
I haven't either. I looked and I have the same thing, except the date of mine is from august. I just did all those windows updates the other day. I don't know what the deal is. Anyway, maybe someone who reads this will know. It is kinda weird. Thanks alot for responding. Have a great evening.
_02
Reply #4 Monday, February 14, 2005 7:24 PM
Thanks Butch. I checked it and it's the same version as Essencay's So? I guess I won't worry unless somthing strange start's happening. Thanks for responding and have a great evening.
_02
Reply #5 Friday, February 18, 2005 9:12 AM
I have found out that anyone who downloaded the new critical updates has a changed shell32.dll.

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