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
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
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.
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.
Download File: WEXTRACT.EXE from here.
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