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From: "Janet" <>
Subject: Finally I got the worm out of my computer
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 00:02:37 -0700

Hi
It was not easy!!!! It had come from someone on these genealogy list.
I spent 5 hrs today cleaning out my computer. The badtrans virus is not a
trojan after all, it is a worm that goes thru your files. This is all
because like a dummy, (when I should know better) I went and opened an
attachment that I thought was 1841 census, I
had asked about who had a copy of the census or where I could find an
earlier
census.
I had 2 virus protections on my computer and I thought that if one was
disable the other would work properly. Will it did not. And the Trojan
remover that I downloaded was not able to remove the thing, but only change
the file that was
infected, so the virus was still in my computer. The file KERN32.EXE was
changed to KERN32.EX$ and INETD.EXE was changed to INETD.EX$, which stopped
the emails from going out, but did not remove it. Eventually it would worm
its way thru your programs and gradually infect the files. What a job
getting it removed, cost me 29.00 on the phone with a tech, actually 3
techs. Wore down 2 battery phones. Almost had a nervous breakdown, went
without lunch and was dying of thirst and my ear is sore. So PLEASE everyone
be careful of those attachments.
Janet

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