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Disabling Folder.htt and Desktop.ini in Registry

This is in response to a question posted by vajones at my post entitled, MS-DOS Prompt for Games.pif: A Virus:

To let you know, desktop.ini and folder.htt are both important files in Windows system. But they were already infected with malicious codes, we can disable the use of it, anyway, Windows will still works fine without this two files.

Here's what you can do to disable:

  1. Click on START button on the TASKBAR.
  2. Click on RUN.
  3. On the RUN dialogue, type REGEDIT and then click OK.
  4. On the REGEDIT window, press CTRL-F simultaneously and then a FIND dialogue will appear.
  5. On the FIND dialogue, type FOLDER.HTT and then press ENTER, then windows will find the word FOLDER.HTT on the information displayed by the REGEDIT program.
  6. If the windows FIND program finds the term you are looking for, it will then stops, highlighting the searched term.
  7. On the left FRAME of the REGEDIT window, click on the opened FOLDER and then press DELETE and then confirm the deletion if you will be ask by pressing OK.
  8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 until the FIND program will tell you that folder.htt is not found which means, you have already deleted all the entry of the file FOLDER.HTT.
I just want to make it clear that when I say PRESS, it commanded you to press the button on you keyboard. And when I say, CLICK, it means click the left buttom of you mouse while the mouse pointer is pointing on the button displayed on your screen.

Once the registry entry of the FOLDER.HTT file has been deleted, FOLDER.HTT files on your hardisk or floppy disk will not be executed. But just to make it sure, you must delete the FOLDER.HTT, DESKTOP.INI and the malicious PIF files on you disk.

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