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Message: <blockquote data-quote="normjackson" data-source="post: 1432415" data-attributes="member: 1818">Roy, the registry entry you are checking dictates which actual file on your hard disk which will execute on bootup. If this registry entry references c:\Windows\System32\userinit.exe then that is fine and dandy; it should. (Some malware might actually change this entry so a different file is executed at bootup; one that the malware itself has put on your hard drive).Your malware scanners may instead have picked up that the actual userinit.exe file you have in your Windows\System32 folder is corrupted; one indication might be if it has a different size or time stamp from the one I gave in post #16 (which are those of a Windows XP service pack 3 version).</blockquote>