- Help! A virus is blocking Zonealarm and AntiVir9X and slows down Win98
- Posted by Electric Bike & Scooter Guide on August 2nd, 2003
On or about the last day of the month (July 31) or the first of
August, something activated itself that now, when Win 98 is booted, a
virus or worm is removing my friend's "Luke Filewalker" Anti Virus 9x
(from Germany, I think), its Download Scheduler, and the Zone Alarm
that I installed. These programs' icons disappear from the taskbar.
Also, the mouse and the screen starts to work in slow motion.
We removed the modem cord just in case the nasty virus/worm (or
spyware) tries to dial out.
Other symptoms...
1) Trying to reload Zonelabs' Zone Alarm doesn't load it.
2) Running on old version of Luke Filewalker works, and speeds up the
mouse to normal speed.
If anybody has information on how to defeat this virus or worm think,
kindly post. Thanks in advance for all replies.
The computer configuration: Pentium II 266Mhz running Win 98. Uses
Eudora email software.
- Posted by donut on August 2nd, 2003
electricbikesguide@yahoo.com (Electric Bike & Scooter Guide) wrote in
news:6169fc3a.0308020728.152b5510@posting.google.c om:
Go to symantec.com and look at the worm and virus definitions there.
You must get an up to date AV on the computer and get it disinfected. Since
it disables his current one, there's no way to do it with that one. There
are many to choose from.
It sounds a lot like the virus I got a year ago, which was Magistr-A.
Coincidentally, I also use Eudora, and this is one of the viruses that can
target Eudora. This virus also set about destroying MP3 files I had
archived on another drive. I wouldn't even boot up the computer until I had
a new AV ready to install on it.
That's what I did, and the new AV immediately detected and quarantined it.
- Posted by Colonel Flagg on August 4th, 2003
In article <6169fc3a.0308032058.3f0b9683@posting.google.com>,
electricbikesguide@yahoo.com says...
read the rest of his/her suggestions and try it again. you missed a few
steps. (you didn't READ everything).
also try another a/v like f-secure or f-prot.
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- Posted by Colonel Flagg on August 4th, 2003
In article <oUOdndsoeeGx0rOiXTWJjg@seg.net>,
nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.com says...
f-prot has a free dos utility. boot the machine to dos, either through
the use of a boot floppy (with ntfs support if the drive is ntfs), copy
the appropriate files over (from cd, whatever), run f-prot for dos.
considering most new viruses are targetted toward windows and do nothing
to the filesystem until windows comes up, this usually takes care of
virus problems BEFORE windows loads.
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- Posted by mto on August 5th, 2003
"Colonel Flagg" <colonel_flagg@NOSOUPFORJ00internetwarzone.org> wrote in
message news:MPG.199864b3f0e16981989ab0@news.charter.net.. .
Thanks for that Colonel. Sounds like a program worth having handy.
