Opera Browser Issue -- JPEGS -- Viewer.Exe

[Frank-0-Video]

Greetings ....

UPDATE -- Have found apparent cause of problems. See post #10 in this thread.

I have encountered a problem when using the OPERA Browser. The problem seems to occur when I save JPEG images to a folder, but not when saving other image types. This problem has been occuring less than a week now, and I am using Version 11.51.

If I right-click on a JPEG, then choose to save it, I get an error message "The application or DLL C:\Windows\Viewer.exe is not a valid windows image. Now when the error box is clicked out, I can still save the image.

Spent - make that blew - $ 30.00 on something that claimed to fix Viewer.exe issues - it didn't. Scans with AVAST and MalWare Bytes turned up nothing.

This problem occurs ONLY in Opera, but not in Firefox or MS-IE.

Any suggestions?

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Video

[AlanHK]

Sounds like you have this virus:
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/W32~Repe...-analysis.aspx

[Frank-0-Video]

Greetings ....

Tried Sophos Trial - it found something called "Mal/generic-L"

Next tried Norton 2012 trial - it removed one virus, a KeyGen thing inside a RAR file.

I still have the problem - I'm using Windows XP Home, 32-bit. Wonder if Viewer.exe itself has been somehow corrupted. If so, what should I do?

ALSO -- Found This Report on Opera Vulnerability
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Critical-vulnerability-in-Opera-web-browser-1175689.html

As a result of this, I am uninstalling Opera for now.


ALSO: NEW PROBLEM -- When I attempt to open any HTML files on my PC using MS-IE, the browser doesn't open it, instead it has Firefox (my default browser) open it. This happens only with local HTML files in MS_IE.



Thanx-A-Lot, Frank

[El Heggunte]

FWIW, it's quite probable that your PC was infected not through Opera itself

That Opera-related bug looks like just a "residual symptom" of the infection.

In last February, my PC was infected through Seamonkey, but the "residual symptom" appeared in Internet Exploder 8 ( it cannot open tabs anymore ).

[hech54]

...and always scan in SAFE MODE.

[aedipuss]

viewer.exe is not a microsoft program and shouldn't be in the windows directory or on your computer at all. you are definitely still infected if it's still there and running.

[Frank-0-Video]

Greetings ....

VIEWER.EXE turns out to be an old Apple Quicktime component, but it's never given me trouble. It's something else, and it's occurred within the last 7-10 days.

Now using AVG anti-virus. It found nothing.

Tried Windows System Restore, but even though it was active, it can not restore my PC to a previous state. In fact, each time I try it tells me that "No changes were made to my computer".

Yeah, Right.

Looks like I may need to re-install XP. I do have a disc but it has a different registration number. Fine. If I do the re-install, I'm sure that current files saved to my hard drive should not be affected. Do I also assume that I would have re-install any programs currently used now?

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank

[TreeTops]

OK which is it? viewer.exe or VIEWR.EXE?

[aedipuss]

to get rid of virus/trojan problems you have to re-format the hard drive then re-install windows. all programs and any data stored on the boot drive will be gone.

[Frank-0-Video]

Greetings ...

It's Viewer.exe (I mis-spelled) - and that file is OK.

I know now that the problem is -NOT- a virus/trojan/worm, but apparently a bad video card driver. I'm using an ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics card, with an older driver, version 8.762.0.0 released August 3rd 2010. I had gone to the older driver because of lock-up issues with a newer one. That was back in late May when I first got my computer.

Less than seven days ago, I elected to change my display settings (still using older driver) from 1024x768 to 1280x720. It was after this that the trouble with Opera began.

I finally did a successful System Restore, which rolled me back to the 1024x768 screen. Next, I tested opening an HTML file in MS-IE. No problem, it went right to the file. However, when I changed screen display from 1024x768 to 1280x720, MS-IE messed up again, with HTML files opening in Firefox rather than in MS-IE. I have not yet re-installed Opera, but even if I do, I suspect I'll have the same troubles in it that I've already experienced.

Now I have to decide if I want to (1) delete/re-install the current driver, (2) risk going to a new driver or (3) take out the current graphics card (if I can) and try something else.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Video