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Subject: Re: Warning phony Microsoft Security Patch!!

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 12:49:52 09/20/03

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On September 20, 2003 at 15:09:37, David Mays wrote:

>Two days ago I opened an attachment from what I thought was Microsoft update
>patch, since i have been in living hell trying to get rid of it, first the virus
>completely destroyed Norton Internet security, when I try to access Norton I get
>a phony error exception message, I noticed that suddenly my outlook express went
>haywire and started randomly mailing to who I don't know. Eventually I was able
>to uninstall norton security and reinstall, I then ran the virus scan which
>detected 9 virus which have been cleaned from the system, the damaged to my
>system that I can so far see is that I have this daily Adult movies pORN iCON ON
>MY dESKTOP, i HAVE RAN Adware removal about twenty times but the Same 182 bugs
>found keep reappearing even after i delete them, I discovered they magically
>appear whenever i start up internet explorer, i do a rescan and the same 182
>bugs that were there before come back. Also I no longer have access to System
>Restore, whenever i try to access it the area is completely missing from the box
>it should be at and I get an error message. Also I cannot even run Regedit from
>the Startup button. Therefore I cannot even  execute the number 1 instructtion
>on the norton site for removal, which is to turn off system restore.  I know
>this is not the forum for this question but I saw some post from mike byrne he
>seemed to have the same problem, also i have been getting dozens of emails from
>microsoft with the virus attached,  Help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You should go to http://www.webroot.com and download the free version of
spysweeper, that checks the regestries as well as removing the addware, it is a
great program for this kind of job.

Jonas



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