Toxsick Kitty
02-05-2004, 17:14
Last night I had a slight mishap- clicked on a bad link, and accidentally downloaded some evil program, despite having firewall / AV in place- afraid I panicked and probably clicked on something I shouldn't have.
Running W98 SE, McAfee AV & Firewall.
The prog is just called "System.exe", and sits in C/windows/system/system.exe.
Have run a virus scan, which detected 2 Trojans, which were deleted, and I also manually deleted a downloaded prog in the windows/downloaded program files.
Have tried to delete the offending prog manually, but just get error msg, saying "program is in use by windows, unable to delete".
My firewall kept throwing up alerts that this prog was trying to connect to internet, at first I kept telling it to block it.
But this alert was popping up every 2 seconds or so, and interfering with my other programs, so I ended up letting the firewall let it through....
Everything on my PC is still working OK except for file browsing, which I have to do a lot of as I work with graphics, images etc. When I double click any file, it takes forever to open in IE, and when I want to shut it again, the PC seems to freeze. Also, shut-down/ rebooting seems to hang, and I am having to manually shut down progs to start the shut-down process.
Can I delete this prog despite the error msg, and will this stop all the hanging probs?
Big sigh....
Running W98 SE, McAfee AV & Firewall.
The prog is just called "System.exe", and sits in C/windows/system/system.exe.
Have run a virus scan, which detected 2 Trojans, which were deleted, and I also manually deleted a downloaded prog in the windows/downloaded program files.
Have tried to delete the offending prog manually, but just get error msg, saying "program is in use by windows, unable to delete".
My firewall kept throwing up alerts that this prog was trying to connect to internet, at first I kept telling it to block it.
But this alert was popping up every 2 seconds or so, and interfering with my other programs, so I ended up letting the firewall let it through....
Everything on my PC is still working OK except for file browsing, which I have to do a lot of as I work with graphics, images etc. When I double click any file, it takes forever to open in IE, and when I want to shut it again, the PC seems to freeze. Also, shut-down/ rebooting seems to hang, and I am having to manually shut down progs to start the shut-down process.
Can I delete this prog despite the error msg, and will this stop all the hanging probs?
Big sigh....