

No network that connects to the Internet is immune to it. Not only is it a time sink-it also has the indented potential to cause irreparable damage. I made Bob’s virtual acquaintance recently when I did a Live Meeting presentation to the Twin Cities PowerShell User Group.įor a local service desk systems analyst, nothing is more frustrating than malware.
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Yesterday Bob wrote about a quick script that he developed to pick out comments from a Windows PowerShell script: Weekend Scripter: Pick Comments from a PowerShell Script. Today, we welcome back our newest guest blogger, Bob Stevens. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Close the Command Prompt and Task Manager windows and the files should be gone.Summary : Guest blogger, Bob Stevens, talks about using Windows PowerShell to clean out temporary folders on desktops following a malware infection. Your Desktop should be back to normal.Go back to Task Manger, click File > New Task (Run.) and in the "Open" box type.In the Command Prompt window, type the following command.At this point, your display should be blank except for the open Command Prompt window and Task Manager.Find explorer.exe in the list of processes, select it and click "End Process".Leaving the Command Prompt window open, start Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL).Navigate to the directory where the LAExxx.tmp files are located using the cd command.Open a Command Prompt window (Start > Run > cmd > OK).Or, instead of Safe Mode, the following almost always works: Otherwise you can probably delete them by starting in Safe Mode (tap F8 immediately after reboot sequence starts, before the Windows logo appears). If the files are more than 7 days old, you may be able to delete them using Disk Cleanup (Start > Run > cleanmgr.exe > OK). I don't know what these files are, however, any files in the TEMP directory are safe to delete, but you might want to reboot once, just to make certain that there is no "restart to complete this install procedure" pending.įiles that are shown in blue are compressed.
