| Re: Virus help.... [message #18982] |
Tue, 22 February 2000 00:00 |
Pavel Romashkin
Messages: 166
Registered: April 1999
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Sometimes I am glad I have a Mac. Its OS is so ... robust? that writing
a virus for it is not worth the effort :-)
I use MacAfee on my PC and so far it was able to handle anything I was
able to bring in. Good luck!
Pavel
"Richard G. French" wrote:
> Ok, I confess - I stupidly clicked on one of those off-topic
> links, out of curiosity, and it loaded a virus onto my
> PC. NORTON is happy to tell me that it is a virus, and I know
> the name of the file:
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\FAVPNMCFEE.dll
> but I cannot delete it since it says it is used by the system.
> I start up windows in safe mode and remove the file, but
> it is recreated whenever I restart windows in its full mode.
>
> Nortons identifies this as a trapdoor/trojan virus. If any of you can
> tell me how to figure out what is creating this file each time
> I start up, that would be great. I don't know what the virus
> is doing but I want to get rid of it!
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| Re: Virus help.... [message #18984 is a reply to message #18982] |
Tue, 22 February 2000 00:00  |
Bruce Bowler
Messages: 128
Registered: September 1998
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Senior Member |
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Make sure your virus definition file is current. If norton gives the
virus a name, search their site for it, they're pretty good about
telling you about how to get rid of them. If norton still isn't any
help, try downloading the trial version of McAfee.
"Richard G. French" wrote:
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> Ok, I confess - I stupidly clicked on one of those off-topic
> links, out of curiosity, and it loaded a virus onto my
> PC. NORTON is happy to tell me that it is a virus, and I know
> the name of the file:
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\FAVPNMCFEE.dll
> but I cannot delete it since it says it is used by the system.
> I start up windows in safe mode and remove the file, but
> it is recreated whenever I restart windows in its full mode.
>
> Nortons identifies this as a trapdoor/trojan virus. If any of you can
> tell me how to figure out what is creating this file each time
> I start up, that would be great. I don't know what the virus
> is doing but I want to get rid of it!
>
> Thanks for your suggestions -
>
> Dick French
>
> NExt time, I'll just stick to the IDL questions!
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