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Unbound the sharing , re booted and scrsvr virus message came back - keeps on writing to win ini so can these worms be zapped? Steve

One hard drive

Found something from your earlier message and pasted view of my startup log. Hope I haven't trashedthe forum!! Steve

Hi, I have the same problem as Stu - this is long file - is this OK for you to look at? ---------- C:\WINDOWS\desktop\StartUp.Log Start-Ups checked at 27/10/2003 15:58:40.28 __________________________________________________________________________...

The viruses are back! So what's the best way to to kill 'em? Steve

John Deleted from recycle bin but that trashed the screen display a couple of times so had to power back down and up again. Disabled the loader in msconfig and re ran the virus checker - nothing reported this time. Let's hope that this has done the trick! Thanks for your help! Cheers Steve

John Have run and what I get are tabs. What am I supposed to do next? In the Startup tab there is a reference to ~2.exe which seems a bit strange. Is there an actualog to run? What do I need to do to provide the necessary info? Tks Steve

After reformatting my hard disk for the 2nd time and installing AVG v 6.00 anti virus software - I keep getting the same entries to my Win ini file: run=c:\windows\alevir.exe,c:\windows\marco!.scr,c:\windows\puta!!.com,c:\windows\speedy.pif The program is detecting variants of the I-Opas worm...

Cleared hard dik by reformatting twice - 1st time ran for a bit but then something strange happened and I couldn't access progs from systray. 2nd time I loaded a virus checker which tells me I have variations of Opas worms. Although these are moved and healed I still get them back so how can...

Hi Matgoat, so this would be in MS DOS? Steve

All Please see link: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.removal.tool.html This is what I opened as it appeared to be an MS warning. I will follow the instructions, but I think it will be hard to "Run" any program as this is what the worm has done...

Matt that I don't know as I'm unable to get into Virus Central, the main McAfee front-end. Steve

Rob / other patient folk! I used an online virus checker and discovered I had quite a few non-cleanable viruses. I'm concerned that these may have been the result of previous cleanups by my McAfee software. I had regularly updated by downloading .dat files and may have rendederd them harmless...

Are Spybot and Ad-Aware free?

Rob Hi, have changed the extension as suggested but can't use Run to open & edit the file. Still looking for gwrrukz.exe now to open an MS DOS application! I had to use another machine - use Explorer as I can't open it on the affected machine, copy the renamed file from the floppy and into the...