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~Dan~ · 12-10-2004, 10:59

I ran "panda quick remover" in safe mode, then did an online scan at that housecall site. Then I rebooted and did another scan just to make sure it was gone, and it was. I don't think the virus is there any more.

What the virus did is add itself to every exe file, so every exe file was around 174k larger. The virus scan made all the files back to how they were before the virus struck.

I completely reinstaller Outlook and that didn't help, so thats's why I thought it must have been some other component that outlook was trying to access. I went to uninstall, selected Internet Explorer but chose the repair option. This made no difference either.

I'm now using Mozilla Thunderbird for my email. It was such a breeze to import the emails, and I've now uninstalled Outlook. It's a tad annoying knowing the problem is potentially still there and may rear its ugly head, but everything seems to be working now. (Just as I'd finished confuguring Thunderbird and sent my first email my cable went down. Grrr, I was already angry through all the virus business, this just topped it off. At least I got an early night for once!)

12-10-2004, 10:59	#9
~Dan~ Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 80	Re: I removed a virus and now outlook takes 2 min to open I ran "panda quick remover" in safe mode, then did an online scan at that housecall site. Then I rebooted and did another scan just to make sure it was gone, and it was. I don't think the virus is there any more. What the virus did is add itself to every exe file, so every exe file was around 174k larger. The virus scan made all the files back to how they were before the virus struck. I completely reinstaller Outlook and that didn't help, so thats's why I thought it must have been some other component that outlook was trying to access. I went to uninstall, selected Internet Explorer but chose the repair option. This made no difference either. I'm now using Mozilla Thunderbird for my email. It was such a breeze to import the emails, and I've now uninstalled Outlook. It's a tad annoying knowing the problem is potentially still there and may rear its ugly head, but everything seems to be working now. (Just as I'd finished confuguring Thunderbird and sent my first email my cable went down. Grrr, I was already angry through all the virus business, this just topped it off. At least I got an early night for once!)