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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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