Comments on: How to delete a self replicating undeletable dll file

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:56:02 +0000

Nice to someone in success. These days I have a virus in my pc which I had formatted even couple of times, but efforts seem to be in vain.

No antivirus softwares can be installed and Im on my own….suggest anything you could, would be greatful !

By: Ajay M

Ajay M — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:36:32 +0000

I am glad that it worked for you and you have been able to get rid of the notorious virus.
Bookmark the site for future reference as I will be posting more life saving tips.

By: WebUser

WebUser — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:09:11 +0000

Ajay –

You’re a life saver. This is the ONLY relevant piece I’ve found in quite a bit of searching. It helped me get rid of a problematic .dll file after hours of trying!

One addendum for note to others doing this: I had to go into regedit from inside File Commander (while in safe mode) via the “Run” option in one of the dropdown menus and delete references to the .dll file of interest. FileCommander still wouldn’t let me delete the file, but I rebooted into safe mode again and then was able to delete the file. Somehow, despite having killed WINLOGON.exe and explorer.exe (the only two processes that had been using the dll), it said it was still in use. Oh well, it’s gone now!

Thanks again Ajay.

By: Janet Bondrucker

Janet Bondrucker — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:38:49 +0000

Thanks for the info

By: montyloree

montyloree — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:43:03 +0000

Is this virus related.? I think i’ve had problems with this… anyway… good to know.

By: Gabe G.H.

Gabe G.H. — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:26:31 +0000

Nice information! Thanks for it. So far I have had no problems with these files, but I hope I wont have in the future either. I am afraid of deleting anything like this, becase I am sure that my PC will start malfunctioning after that……

By: Kenneth Holland

Kenneth Holland — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:21:52 +0000

A friend of mine used this same procedure to eliminate some pesky dll’s and he messed up his PC. He might have done it wrong but he told me if you do this a Windows rollback will not work for this.

Is he right? I would like to do this…I’m just a little nervous.

By: Roger Hamilton

Roger Hamilton — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:05:02 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Will come in handy!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:20:00 +0000

Thanks for this. My husband has been having trouble with a dll file on his new computer, so I’ll forward him this post to see if it helps him.

By: Olaf Neuigkeit

Olaf Neuigkeit — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:53:32 +0000

I have had so much trouble with these pesky dll malware files. They really take the mick out of me! Not to sound like an annoying mac fanboy, but this is one of the reasons that I have enjoyed having my mac now . . . I don’t deal with any of this, and I don’t have an antivirus program running constantly in the back of my computer slowing things down for me.
However, I still have a pc, and although this is a lot of effort, this is the first way I have seen to get rid of these files!
So Cheers!