RE: Virus Alert! - instructions if you opened the "Check This" email

If you opened an Email with the Subject "Check This", your computer has a virus and you will need to remove it from your hard disks and the computer's registry. The virus sends itself to all the entries in your MS Outlook address book. Here is a website with more info http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.freelink.html Here's how to remove it: Hard disk: right click on Start menu select Find in "Named" box, type: rundll.vbs click Find Now button if it finds the file, right click on the file and choose Delete be sure not to delete the file rundll32.exe or Windows won't run Registry: Start menu -> Run in the "Open" box, type regedit, click on OK button from the menu, choose Edit -> Find In "Find what" box, type: rundll.vbs if it finds an entry, click right on it and select delete press F3 function key to search again until no more are found Christopher A. Franks Senior Database Architect Hiwire (formerly RocketRadio) 700 S. Flower St. Suite 3210 Los Angeles, CA 90017 (213) 489-3900 x234 www.hiwire.com

"Christopher A. Franks" wrote: > > If you opened an Email with the Subject "Check This", your computer has a > virus and you will need to remove it from your hard disks and the computer's > registry. > > The virus sends itself to all the entries in your MS Outlook address book. > [snip] One more reason to use Netscape and Unix.

that is better the quality of the paramount channel. shame a lot of people wouldn't appreciate it in the pub. :) netscape and linux methinks. Bradford Young wrote: > > "Christopher A. Franks" wrote: > > > > If you opened an Email with the Subject "Check This", your computer has a > > virus and you will need to remove it from your hard disks and the computer's > > registry. > > > > The virus sends itself to all the entries in your MS Outlook address book. > > > [snip] > > One more reason to use Netscape and Unix.