re: hidden files in ME
Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 11:14 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by worm
(792 messages posted)
Hi Anna,
It sounds like you've got the virus shown here
To be doubly sure it's gone, run an extra online scan here
In addition, you have to purge all your System Restore points. There's an illustrated
tutorial on how to do that here
On Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 9:37 am, Anna Wallace wrote:
>I have let a worm in! It came in email, parading as Pay-Pal UPDATE and, in spite
>of firewall and EZ Trust I have opened it. Besides other damage to my Pay-Pal account,
>I now have the shreds of worm in my files. They got there after Virus scan and Windows
>Restore. Thorough Scan Disc did not remove them either. My question is: is it possible
>to remove them somehow (Delete is not available in hidden files), or – are they
harmless
>in Archive?
>
>Number of infected files not cleaned/deleted/renamed: 2
> C:\_RESTORE\ARCHIVE\FS998.CAB>A0096456.CPY (Win32.Mimail.I worm)
> C:\_RESTORE\ARCHIVE\FS998.CAB>A0096458.CPY (JS.Mimail.I worm)
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