Ok... the reason you were looking for winhost32 was because McAfee said it was a virus, right? You didn't see it somewhere else, in a dialog box or in the startup list of msconfig?

You can go and delete it, but do not delete the file that you found (the .mcq file) instead open McAfee and get the "quarantined files" list and delete if from there. I don't use McAfee so I don't know the exact procedure.

If McAfee quarantined it then it should not be running... which means it is not the source of the DLL error messages. No reason to keep it around though.

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FYI... I say delete it through McAfee because that's another "registry" example. When you look at the list of quarantined files in McAfee, McAfee has stored that list and reads it back from the registry or its own reference file. When you invoke McAfee to delete it, it will delete the file and update the registry list.

If you were to bypass McAfee and delete the file right from Windows, the file would be gone but the list would not be updated. When you opened McAfee you would see that it still has that file "quarantined" but if you tried to delete it you might get an error, because McAfee wouldn't be able to find the file to delete. No serious harm, but could cause confusion if you forgot that you deleted the file on your own, not to mention the annoyance of having that name on the list forever more.

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