Re: Wormy question

de In_Parentheses 05/29/2006 11:35

gregfarr <gregfarr@comcast.net> wrote in
news:u9pm7215q7fnvapm6olpnolssm17ijm8mb@4ax.com:

> Yesterday, I had a diff looking icon in the tray so I opened the
> Tuneup 2006 start manager and there was an entry that had the name
> worm, so I unchecked it and ran for my AGV antivirus, I ran it twice
> and nother was picked up on, and no disasters befell me. Anyone
> have a clue? 98SE. sys.
>
> Greg
> http://gregsplace.50megs.com
> http://www.picturetrail.com/fugitive1
>

Hi Greg,

Could be coincidence, could be not. In order to be sure I would (on a
different computer) download a DOS scanner (F-prot, for instance, with
the latest definitions), unpack the whole lot; write the program to a CD
(RW) which you made bootable.

Boot from this CD. Then scan the whole system with this program which can
take, depending of the size of your hard disk and your system's speed,
quite some time.

If your box doesn't support booting from CD, then - again on the other
system - make a boot floppy with CD support, boot from the floppy, then
change to the CD and start the virus scanner. F-prot can report only if
it finds something suspicious, which is the safest way to find out if for
instance your system files have been infected by something!

--
Jay
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