ever since the Blaster viro i've had slow down problems tho i run old school win98 and have been told that that viro should have hit me. i want to kick the date back a few days b4 the slowdown started and i know that there is code i can put in dos to accomplish this. i realize that i'll lose everything from that date till now but that's the point. prob is everything i search online doesn't cover the nutandbolt of the how to. can anyone out there help? ps downloaded datetime but dont understand where to insert command...help!

Hi I thought the Blaster Virus only WinXp, Win2000 and NT. Correct me if I wrong. Harry

Hi I think you are correct Harry. Ed you are thinking about scanreg/restore when booted into DOS ,not windows dos. Will only give you last 5 good bootup days. do not know anything about " datetime "

Go to the ms-dos prompt and enter DATE although the display suggests DD-MM-YY, you can also enter DD-MM-YYYY if required. I think this will achieve what you require, in resetting the pc date. Use TIME if change to time required. I do not think you will lose any info though. Good luck - Keep us posted.

No, you won't lose any info and the current date and/or time is restored with a reboot. Blaster virus did not affect the 9x kernal. Do some virus and spyware scans...courtesy of wawadave: d/l spybot search and destroy,update it,run it. try these links free trojin scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp nrav av http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ avast cleaning tool http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html mcafee avert stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ scans for open trojin ports http://scan.sygate.com/pretrojanscan.html test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 dsl port scan http://www.dslreports.com/scan pest patrol scan mediocre http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp security scan http://www.it-sec.de/index/inhalt/vulchk.php/?sid=2eb8ea121e57434616fa2c6f283c63b7 That should clean your machine and keep it in shape.

Just use "date" to set a new date ..

Ed, setting the date back is not going to help a slowdown problem.