virus (long post -- contains instructions)

[Guest guest]

Well, I need to search the O archives for the imp. virus info that has been

shared there. But, meanwhile, I do have something helpful to share from my

experience. I used these instructions, from McAfee (sp.?) which I thought might

be helpful to share here. (Interestingly, I realized that the virus came

through on my dial up connection rather than my adsl... since re-booting

everything, have not added in the dial up connection to my internet resources.)

Frances

WINDOWS 95/98/ME

Restart Windows in Safe Mode (reboot your computer, just before the large

WINDOWS startup screen comes up, hit the F5 key). You can recognize that you're

in Safe Mode by the text Safe Mode in the 4 corners of the desktop.

Click START | RUN, type %WINDIR% and hit ENTER

Delete the INETD.EXE file (if present)

Click START | RUN, type %WINDIR%\SYSTEM and hit ENTER

Delete the following files (if they exist):

KERN32.EXE

KERNEL32.EXE

KDLL.DLL

HKSDLL.DLL

Click START | RUN, type REGEDIT and hit ENTER

Click the (+) next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Click the (+) next to SOFTWARE

Click the (+) next to MICROSOFT

Click the (+) next to WINDOWS

Click the (+) next to CURRENTVERSION

Click RUNONCE

Click on KERNEL32 on the right and hit DELETE on the keyboard

Restart the computer