I have a Virus! I need an Apirin (Computer Viruses)

Name: Carlow Lass

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Product:	Computer Viruses
Date:	28/11/01 (82 review reads)
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Having received a Virus yesterday I sure do need an Apirin or two to-day
I am one of those people that tells everyone to watch out for Virus's and what do I do? Yep you guessed it! opened an attachment that I though was from a friend
The Virus is the Badtrans_B and it went wild on the 24th Nov
I think that the reason that the virus has gained so rapidly is that it uses a known vulnerability of Internet Explorer which allows the AUTOMATIC download of an attachment merely by looking at the e-mail. Whilst this virus does not destroy data on your PC or render it useless it places a ‘Trojan Horse’ on it which would enable someone to track your keyboard entries and even passwords. The Trojan Horse file is called KDLL.DLL and it resides in the Windows/System folder. So a quick Start/Search for this file will tell you whether you are infected. Another file keeps a log of your activities and this is called CP_25389.NLS.

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"The way to remove the virus is to delete these. Unfortunately they are protected against deletion whilst Windows is running, so it is not possible to use Windows Explorer to delete. The method I used was (with Win 95 and 98) to restart the computer in DOS mode. This will show you a blank screen with C:\windows displayed. To change to the System directory (folder) use the entry CD System. There is a space between CD and the word System. The screen should now displace C:\windows\System. If it does not then try again.

Once in the System directory you need to delete the two files. Enter the text Del KDLL.DLL and press the Enter key. Do the same for the other file. There is a third file called PE.EXE and you can try to delete that also but it is likely to say ‘File Not Found’ as the Virus program normally covers its tracks by deleting it. There is another place where an alteration is made to your computer but that is less critical

You can and should now restart your computer
by pressing the button on the PC.
Do an occasional search for KDLL.DLL to see if it has returned"
Well I have done all of the above and still no wiser It has not shown up on my computer and I will just have to keep on with it!

It makes me wonder what kind of person takes delight in causing so much trouble? and of course there is the Fraud aspect to it too. If they can gain access to your pass words and gain access to your credit cards then they have struck it rich.
But it is not just the rich they are taking from (and I am in no way condoning them taking from the rich) but us ordinary mortals too!
But Most of all it is the sheer hassel of trying to sort out the computer and informing everyone of it that is the most annoying part to all this.
So now that I have vent my anger, someone please pass me those aspirins!!

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