XP FIX: Cant delete broken AVI files

[Carmel Apple]

The obnoxious bug in XP that causes Explorer to read the entire
contents of
broken AVI files before allowing any access to them is caused by bad
behavior of shmedia.dll.

This problem manifests itself by causing Explorer to read the entire
contents
of an AVI file, regarless of its size or location any time the mouse
pointer
is hovered over it, or an attempt is made to access it in windows
explorer.

This causes 'permission denied' errors when trying to simply move,
copy or
delete these files as they cannot be changed while Explorer has an
open handle
on them.

This also causes a DoS situation where large AVI's are stored on
remote shares and Explorer keeps reading the files from beginning to
end each time they are accessed.

To correct this misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the following
registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32

This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to
file property queries on these files.

This will not effect your ability to play files, get file attributes,
or even view thumbnails.

[Danny Tuppeny]

My virus scanner went ape on an eicar(?) test string just when I selected
(not run) the file. Is this the same thing?

Also, I managed to be infected by a Hybris worm (even though i've got great
antivirus software that has realtime protection). Could this be xp loading
the code when I selected the file (to virus scan it)? :( I definately didn't
run it myself!