re: Evil "lexplore" virus hijacked me
Friday, June 4, 2004 at 4:26 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Carl S.
(426 messages posted)
You also could download, update & run Spybot Search & Destroy. Oh, and yes, it is
FREE. There is a new version out just recently. You can get it here: http://www.safer-networking.org/
On Thursday, June 3, 2004 at 10:30 pm, gammagirl66 wrote:
>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.
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | re: Evil "lexplore" virus hijacked me (Carl S.: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 4:26 am) |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum
|
|
