Evil "lexplore" virus hijacked me
Thursday, June 3, 2004 at 10:30 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by geehawgirl
(47 messages posted)
Had a PIL song in my head the other day, went to look up the lyrics. Before I knew
it, something weird happened on the site. When I was finally able to click out,
there were three new icons on my desktop - one said it was Lycos, another said "2nd
Thought" the third said "Casino - $200...". When I control alt delete, the program
calls itself "lexplore". What the virus wants to do is continuously launch my opening
Explorer window - six, seven, eight windows go. It seems to have a time-release
launcher (every five minutes or so) as well as something that will launch the same
explorer window when I'm working from Netscape and go from one page to another -
it'll launch every time I go to a new window. Sometimes the lower bars will say
it's downloading something, which I find horrifying. Ad-Aware has taken out some
300 objects, many of them contain the word "malware". I've tried add/remove programs,
tried to locate anything from those dates in my files and delete - am still plagued.
Where can I go to get (hopefully free) software to rout out this crap? AND WHAT
THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THAT THEY DO THIS SORT OF THING??? Would appreciate
any help.
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