Explorer.exe showing as malware

I'm curious, did you do any modding of Window's to adjust the theme?

xxxdannyxxx said:

whs said:

Especially since it shows in C:>Windows, which is the correct location.

Thanks whs always appreciate a second opinion

Danny

I just thought that if you had, maybe the AV had picked up on the altered explorer.exe signature because of the theme changes. I mean, there are people on here who hack many system's .exe and .dll files to make themselves custom Window's theme, so I had to ask if you were one of then. But I guess not, so it's just a normal FP :)

xxxdannyxxx said:

I do have custom icons and a custom orb but havent applied any custom themes.

Every file has a default signature and MD5 hash etc, maybe whatever is in this hitmanpro checks these signatures / hashes. In this case it would have noticed an altered signature/hash and flagged it as infected.

xxxdannyxxx said:

Lost Colonist said:

I just thought that if you had, maybe the AV had picked up on the altered explorer.exe signature because of the theme changes. I mean, there are people on here who hack many system's .exe and .dll files to make themselves custom Window's theme, so I had to ask if you were one of then. But I guess not, so it's just a normal FP :)

xxxdannyxxx said:

I do have custom icons and a custom orb but havent applied any custom themes.

Actually Lost Colonist your on to something i restored the explorer.exe back-up file that windows 7 start button changer creates and ran it again and no problems, used it again to apply a custom orb and the problems back.
Any Views on this

Danny