Re: Suspected virus
From: Br0wnbear (browbearat_at_canadadotcom)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:12:21 -0500
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:41:24 -0800, "detrmnd2"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I run Windows ME and recently I've receiving an error
>message concerning a link that had no target. I attempted
>to remove programs that I didn't recognize from my
>computer, but the problem remained. Then I deleted files
>for the errored links, but every time I would restart my
>computer I would get a new error message for a different
>link. It appears that there is a program that is
>generating random link addresses that causes the error
>message to appear every tim I restart my computer. Anyone
>else ever experience this type of virus? Fix?
detrmnd2
What did your a/v product say?
You could have spayware that has lost its home also.
Spybot and Adaware may take care of this.
www.safer-networking.org - spybot
www.lavasoftuas.com - adaware
Download, Install and Update.
one will normally catch what the other misses.
Don't have AV software. Try AVG freebee at www.grisoft.com or
Computer Associates has a free one year trial on for their EZtrust and
Zonealarm combo.
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm?
or try and online scanner
www.pandasoftware.com
hth
jbrown
"A Computer is almost human. Except
that it doesn't blame its mistakes on
another computer."
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