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- About a month ago, my antivirus program(Avast) said it detected a virus in MEMORY.
- SUGGESTED I shut computer down and reboot.
- Did so.
- Everything went fine with no RESULTING errors or messages.

- When attempted to return MS-DOS prompt level, received message that it couldn't fine
the .pif file.
- Researched and found it still there.

- Tryed to recreate an ms-dos prompt.
- Then receive message that system couldn't find command.com.
- Tryed c:\windows\system32\command.com.
- System still couldn't find it, even though file is there.

- Then ran virus check; spybot checkers(Adaware, Spybot, SpyDoctor, etc.), etc.
- They did find instances of viruses, etc. and removed them.

- Ran defrag, checkdisk, scandisk, etc. etc.
- Check registery for .EXE and exefile settings. All o.k. here
- Rebooted computer.
- Tryed other user logons.
- Tryed creating new user logon.

- Still same results.

- Did extension research into problem.
- Can't find anything that works.
- Did extensive research on this board concerning MS-DOS.
- Have not found anything new that is helping.


- NOTE:
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- Can get cmd command to work and get me to DOS level.
- However that are certain dos command I use frequently such as 'edit' 'fd(changes date of file(s))', etc.
- These are not working.


- I don't want to do a system restore at this point. I just want to fix the problem.

- B-T-W.
- Have Compaq Presario V5305.
- WINDOWS XP MEDIA EDITION - VERSION 2002 - SERVICE PACK 2
- Only have RESTORED disk - did not come with OEM disks.

- Any suggestions......

-thanks
-dan
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