Virus?

[RickM]

beenthere,
Glad you got your system back. You mention the rich20.dll file did not take. That is probably because the file is in use. However I believe it is one of the files infected by the Nimda. Go to this page http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a@mm.html and scan down to where it talks about manually fixing Win 95/98 systems. There are instructions there for restoring the rich20.dll file. I recall another site saying it is ok to copy the file from another 'clean' machine to your own. It is usually found in the c:\windows\system directory. Again, hope this helps and good luck.

 

[Bird]

Good luck, Terry, hope it's OK. Those viruses via e-mail have been so frequent lately that my Norton automatically updates every day.

 

[Bird]

Just for comparison purposes, I ran my Norton AntiVirus yesterday afternoon and it showed to have scanned 54,902 files (I may have more now since I updated by browser this afternoon), then Norton automatically updated last night and now the virus lists shows 58,381 viruses to check for.

 

[Chuck52]

I guess this is one benefit I get from having the university as my internet provider. The mail server catches viruses before they get to my box. As you can imagine, universities are somewhat paranoid about such things and keep their interdiction software updated. Doesn't protect me from stuff I might download, but I'm fairly picky about that myself.

Chuck

 

[AndyR]

Right, it's the number of viruses checked for that is the figure of merit. The other (really really important) thing is to make sure that Norton is configured to scan all incoming mail and attachments. I probably catch at least 2-4 attempts per month - but Norton has caught every one so far.

Practice Safe Computing!

Andy in NH

 

[Bird]

Chuck, you're lucky; I don't have any such protection.

And Andy, you're right. Norton has caught two just this week, so far, so good. Like you, Norton has caught all of them for me so far.

 

[beenthere]

Rick
It is the manual extract that I cannot get to work. I get an error that 'cannot open file D:\win98\win_28.cab. Not sure what is not correct, my input or something missing on the Gateway system disk - emulating the Win98se system disk. I will keep looking and working on it, as I don't want that file to stay corrupted.
thanks
beenthere

 

[TerryinMD]

Bird,

Thanks for the concern.

It appears as though Norton caught the Virus before it could do any damage as I can't find any of the files it says have been infected.

However, I am going to follow the Norton suggestions and run their Nimda tool. Better to be safe than sorry.

I told my wife to do two things. Kill the Internet connection and not to turn the PC off. I believe this helped us. The Norton Nimda advisory mentioned that you shouldn't turn the machine off.

Now we'll see what we can do to make sure this cursed virus is kaput!! Also, I'm gonna set up a personal firewall this weekend. I think that we were hacked!! No proof. Just that my wife didn't receive any messages with an executable attached.

Ack!! What a pain. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif I'd rather be sitting in front of the idiot box with an adult beverage.....

Bird, I hope everything works for the best with your wife. I'll keep her in my thoughts.

Terry

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>I'm gonna set up a personal firewall </font color=blue>

My computer came with Norton AntiVirus, but then I decided to buy Norton SystemWorks and called on the phone to order it instead of off the Internet because I had a couple of questions I wanted to ask. Anyway, when I ordered it, the lady asked me if I'd like the firewall also for another $10. Of course, I don't understand all those things, but for $10, I figured, why not? It occasionally pops a little line on the screen showing some site as being "blocked for 30 minutes" so I guess it works./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[TerryinMD]

Okay, here's the final outcome.

Norton dectected the virus and prevented it from damaging any files. I ran the virus scan and then downloaded the Nimda.Axxx repair tool from Symantec. I ran the repair tool and found no problems. One for the good guys!! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

After that, I turned on the personal firewall feature in XP. I'm going to also run the Nimda.Axxx repair tool on my other machine as a safety measure.

A bit of a scare, no problems....

The thing that bothers me is where the damned thing came from. My wife got a couple of messages from her boss and did not download any files. So, the only other ways were that it was picked up from a website (a bank site was the only one accessed prior to the virus attack) or the PC was hacked while online. ????? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Terry