Clobbered cmd.exe!
Posted: 11 Apr 2021 19:44
WTF 
I just discovered my cmd.exe is suddenly missing, as are all my utility files that I keep in d:\utils and include in my PATH. God only knows what else is amiss. I did manage to find a copy of cmd.exe in Windows\SysWOW64.
I think it happened a couple weeks ago when my computer suddenly whacked out, and I had to restart. At that time a bunch of music production software that I use had lost all their settings, and I had to restore the settings - not too bad. But I hadn't done any batch in a while (Lately I've been obsessing over synthesizers - specifically VCV Rack - a software emulation of the Eurorack standard.)
But then today I went to run cmd.exe and the shortcut was dead!
Here is my system at the moment
Any suggestions on how to look for more damage, or what my next step should be?
Could McAfee have somehow gotten confused and deleted/isolated some files? Maybe some malware? Very weird.
Dave Benham
I just discovered my cmd.exe is suddenly missing, as are all my utility files that I keep in d:\utils and include in my PATH. God only knows what else is amiss. I did manage to find a copy of cmd.exe in Windows\SysWOW64.
I think it happened a couple weeks ago when my computer suddenly whacked out, and I had to restart. At that time a bunch of music production software that I use had lost all their settings, and I had to restore the settings - not too bad. But I hadn't done any batch in a while (Lately I've been obsessing over synthesizers - specifically VCV Rack - a software emulation of the Eurorack standard.)
But then today I went to run cmd.exe and the shortcut was dead!
Here is my system at the moment
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INFO.BAT version 1.5
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Windows version : Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.867]
Product name : Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
Performance indicators : Processor Cores: 8 Visible RAM: 16577856 kilobytes
Date/Time format : (mm/dd/yy) Sun 04/11/2021 21:28:54.87
__APPDIR__ : C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
ComSpec : C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
PathExt : .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
Extensions : system: Enabled user: Disabled
Delayed expansion : system: Disabled user: Disabled
Locale name : en-US Code Pages: OEM 437 ANSI 1252
DIR format : 04/05/2021 07:16 PM 2,818,572,288 pagefile.sys
Permissions : Elevated Admin=No, Admin group=Yes
Missing from the PATH environment: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wbem
Missing from the PATH environment: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
Missing from the tool collection: debug
Could McAfee have somehow gotten confused and deleted/isolated some files? Maybe some malware? Very weird.
Dave Benham