uh oh do i need to reformat?

[the_music_man]

after geting rid of those 1000 virus infected files im still geting errors but not as much. look @ this one and should i reformat?..... :-/

 

[yoyo]

System32.exe is/was a virus.
Do you get this error when you start Windows?
Look in the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
for an entry referring to it and delete it.
Also at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
the value for "Shell" should read nothing else than Explorer.exe.

 

[Cosmin]

I suggest (re)format . A restore point should be a solution but not in this situation ..

 

[LeeJend]

I hate the word reformat and consider it a moral defeat but in your case I think it's time.

Before you reformat make sure all your removable media and any additional drives you have have all been cleaned or reformatted too.

 

[ejm]

Hi prodj88
I have to agree with the others, re-format and start again. My recomendation is buy firewall and antivirus program for your computer, check weekly for new updates scan drives weekly for viruses.
I have had both now for at least 10 years and have copped only 3 viruses through maintaining this practice. Because I scan my computer on a weekly basis any viruses I cop are found within 7 days.

I re-installed win98se on my computer (dual system) went to MS site and downloaded all the updates for win98se. I had no firewall and no antivirus. When doing my weekly scan from XPHome, I found 3 files that were infected or should I say, I had 3 files that shouldn't be there.
The 3 files were msvxd.exe, msvxd16.dll and msvxd32.dll. The virus name is w32.datom worm. Now that was only once on the internet unprotected.

If I had used win98se again within that week that virus would have spread and many more files would have been affected.

ejm