Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 06:00:18 03/22/00
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Well I have always foudn that Microsoft and McAfee are the two miost UNRELIABLE sources when it comes to removing viruses. I know that McAfee has their virus scanner, but come on we know it doesn't catch nearly half as much as Norton Antivirus. I searched the internet, found the exe file you all got, and before it could download 4 kbs of it, Norton alerted me, said it was infected and stopped the download, and deleted the temporary internet file that was associated with it. As for your question of removing it. I have a great friend who works for Symantec ( Norton ), and he says that the only sure way to get rid of this bug, is simply to format the system, as it is not a memory resident, fdisking is not needed. This virus not not do anything but try like the Mellisa virus, to spread itself everywhere, and damage the current version or existing version of Windows you have. There is 2 parts to the virus, the active state that a virus scanner finds, and a dormant part that it sitting on your system, messing up all your programs. This is the part you have to get rid of, but unfortunately, nothing that is currently on your system can be saved. As there is a dormant part, it can simply attach itself to any file on your system. Simply formating the hard drive(s), and re-installing windows is the only sure way to get rid of this pesky little thing.
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