Mbam removed wextract.exe

[Mr.Macroney]

Hello,
I installed Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and it while scanning it deleted my wextract.exe which was detected as falsely? How do i recover it back. Help

[Big Fish]

That is a program to extract windows CAB files. WEXTRACT.EXE- Win32 Cabinet Self-Extractor
.cab files ar compressed files which contain setup files etc. You'll find them on your O/S CDROM's. Picture it as a ZIP file. In fact, if you have winzip, you can click on a .cab file and see the contents.

Sometimes (actually most often) the files inside of a cab file are further compressed. For example, a .dll or a .exe file may be listed as .dl_ or .ex_. This is where the extract utility comes in. You can't just use winzip to extract the file as it would still be in it's own compressed state, ie; .dl_ or .ex_ when "unzipped" by winzip. You run the extraction utility to "pull" it from the .cab file into it's full expanded state.

[Zachary]

Locate this file by opening the local search engine and type in:

wextract.exe click [Search..]
You will find at least two copies one of them here:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllchache\wextract.exe

Copy the file from it and paste it here:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\wextract.exe

Also scan the machine for malware and viruses, and run disk cleanup then run this command:
sfc /scannow click [OK]

Or Restore your system to an earlier date if every thing were working okay.

[Janos™]

Download File: WEXTRACT.EXE from here.