Re: av's won't detect virus!

From: Mike Burgess (winhelp2002_at_spamthis.com)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:08:43 -0400

Steven,
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
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You can see a similar problem here: (scroll back to the top)
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=32295
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"Steven M. Schweda" <sms@antinode.org> wrote in message
news:5722d1e1.0404082007.1202c93c@posting.google.com...
> .
>    I don't know the cause, but I just got back from a session with my
> sister's Win98 SE system (AOL for Internet access), which I found
> infested with MANDY1.EXE and about 100 of its %%%%%%%%.exe friends in
> the start-up list.  I unchecked them all, which seemed to help, but then
> msconfig stopped working (appeared to be running but did not appear on
> the screen), so I gave up for a while, and came home to do research from
> my VMS system, which, naturally, never suffers from this sort of thing.
> Sadly, your similar complaint is about all I've found so far.
>
>    She has Norton A-V, and it found nothing objectionable.
>
>    I assume that I'll be back for another clean-up attempt this weekend,
> so an e-mail message would be appreciated if anyone can provide some
> enlightenment.

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