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Re: Windows 98 Virus - Off Topic
« on: August 28, 2003, 11:32:16 PM »
What do you mean "nothing showing on the firewall"? No programs at all, or just the usual  browser etc ?

I had to sort out a friends machine the other week, she couldn`t send mail. Turned out that she`d got the Bugbear virus, which infected Outlook Express, and shut down ZoneAlarm everytime it started.

Do you get anything from doing Netstat -a at a DOS prompt (with no apps open) ?
 It isn`t either of those 2 worms going about, cos 98 is immune to that.
 Also, don`t trust the list of apps that comes up from a Ctrl-Alt-Del, as it`s soooo easy to hide an app from that list!
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