This error message may appear when you try to open disks or folders. Here you will find a complete description and solution for this problem. The fact is that copy.exe is one of the possible names of the Salga-A worm, also known as the Perlovga virus (usually classified as win32.Perlovga.A). Copy.exe is a dangerous threat to your system and should be removed immediately. Other possible file names for this worm include host.exe, xcopy.exe, temp1.exe, temp2.exe, and svchost.exe. The Copy.exe worm (or Salga-A or Perlovga virus, which is the same) copies its references to autorun.inf files on different drives and creates subkeys inside them.

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMountPoints2 key that makes this file the default autorun driver for all drives on your system (local drives like C, D, E, etc., CD/DVD-ROMs, removable drives like USB drives, etc.). So when you double click on any drive, Windows runs the Copy.exe file. Some antiviruses remove it incorrectly, causing the “can’t find copy.exe” error message to appear.

Or if you delete the Copy.exe file, you will get the error “copy.exe missing” when accessing the drives. However, you can still access your drives by right-clicking on them and selecting Open, but this is very inconvenient.

You can solve the Copy.exe missing problem manually. To fully fix the “Can’t open the drive…Windows can’t find the file copy.exe” problem, you need to:

1) Kill all processes related to copy.exe trojan (including but not limited to host.exe, xcopy.exe, temp1.exe, temp2.exe and svchost.exe)

2) Delete all files related to copy.exe Trojan (including but not limited to host.exe, xcopy.exe, temp1.exe, temp2.exe, and svchost.exe)

3) Delete all references to the Copy.exe virus from the Autorun.inf files on all drives or simply delete these files (note that this may stop other useful autorun features on drives)

4) Delete the subkeys under the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMountPoints2 key that are created by the Copy.exe file virus.

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