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  1. #16
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    Hi John,

    Yes....I did try to run exefile08. It appeared to execute OK, but didn't fix the problem. I am going to attempt to run it
    again using your instructions.

    I've tried to create a dos anti-virus boot disk from my work computer, but it appears that I won't be able to go that route using McAfee, since it wants to load files on the work computer. I will have to try it from my infested home computer.

    Limerick,

    Thanks for the tip, I am going to try that approach with the Innoculate Anti-virus software. I'll have to download the program onto my work computer, change the name to .com and e-mail it to my home address as an attachment and try to run it.

    Thanks

    Glenn

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    For those who are interested. I have finally killed off this pain in the you know what Virus. This is how I did it.

    From work I downloaded InoculateIT as suggested by POPPY4. I burned it onto a CD.
    I made the .EXE file 'read only'. I took it back home. Booted up my computer, and ran the read only executable from the CD. I held my breath as I clicked the .exe just waiting for the dreaded error message or virus messages to pop up. Much to my amazement, the program installed. I ran the virus scan. It not only found and cleaned all of the infected files, the Inoculate Anti-virus software picked up another 30+ infected files that McAfee never found.

    Maybe someone could explain too me why a free downloaded Anti-Virus program could not only find more infected files but also clean them as opposed to the McAfee online Virus scan program that not only couldn't clean the infected files but couldn't even find most of them????.......and I paid $30 for a years subscription for this service. I'll have to fire off a message to McAfee and ask them this question.

    Thanks again guys for your help.

    Glenn

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    Cheers Glenn!!!

    was pullin for ya! BTW don't hold yer breath waiting for Mcafee to answer!



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    the reason why some scans miss some virii is that these virii are active
    (they aren't when clean boot happened.)
    when active, some buggers are stealthy and evasive.

    which leads to this question...
    anyone know if windows reloads command com?
    I had this in mind see
    boot from known clean floppy or from cdrom

    at A:\>
    C:\windows\win
    after which one could execute things like CIH_kill from the floppy

    btw, Renaming can also be done like so
    ren filename.aaa filename.exe
    Jaak
    Kind regards, Jaak.

    When I pull my bootstraps, why don't I load Windows?

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    Hi Glenn,

    Excellent news, this! I'm really happy to hear that you nuked the virus issue! You rock!

    Happy computing!

    Limerick


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    I really am glad for some of the postings in this forum. It sure gave me some ideas when I found out that I had the W95.spaces virus. I got it because, even though I have Mcafee Anti Virus, I forgot to re-install it! So... I was getting those errors, like "this file is corrupt" or "File length is not the expected file length". Wiping out the harddrive by formatting is not enough. This is because w95.spaces corrupts the master boot record on your hard-drive. It affects all exe files! eventually it will affect all exe files on your computer, even explorer.exe (needed to run windows)

    Save your data files, address book, bookmarks, things like that, that are not affected by the virus, then:

    You have to shut down completely. Boot with the win 98/me emergency disk in, then when you get the A> prompt, type
    fdisk /mbr. this cleans the master boot record. A word of caution, like the previous poster,

    DO NOT USE THIS COMMAND IF:
    more than four partitions on the drive
    a disk bios overlay
    a boot manager for Multi OS selection
    or you are using GOBACK (first unistall goback if you must do this)
    and you have a hardrive with more than 1024 cylinders

    Anyways, then "format c:"
    then install windows again.
    install Mcafee from a CD only (if you have it stored on another partition, it might be
    infected too!)

    run Mcafee on your other partitions if you have any, searching for other infected exe files.

    thats how I did it anyways
    InoculateIT did work, but it couldnt save any of my infected files, so whats the use?

    good luck!



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    http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/support/

    Go here and download the Emergency Clean Disks from PC-Cillin. You may then after it's done restore some windows system files from your Windows CD. I think it takes 6 floppies..Make sure you write protect them so you don't infect them from this virus on your machine. Since you can't download .exe files on your machine you will have to use another clean machine to do this.

    [This message has been edited by uffbros (edited 10-19-2001).]
    Dell Dimension 4550,Win XP Home, 2.4 GHZ P4, 512MB DDR PC2700 Ram

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    Please help me. I've read all the postings about w95 spaces 1445 and have done everything listed here but I can't seem to get rid of this virus. The inoculate program is no longer available. I'm going crazy.

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    You can still grab a copy of InoculateIT here:
    http://cws.internet.com/virus-inoculate.html

    Skip trying to register it, you can't. It can still be updated though.

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    Try this Removal Program

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