I have something ugly on my C: drive. I used AVG rescue disk, it found no bug, but lots of files which would not open. I went to safe mode (W98SE), file manage, and the files which AVG could not open had WEIRD stuff in them. They were in various places, and had dates like May 10, 1937, and sizes like 4000 GB. Some were undecipherable little black bars, machine code I suppose. Anyway, there is one folder/file called RDRS\BRD.RW2 and when I tried to see its properties (never mind clicking on it....) it boots me back to the previous directory. Note: a lot of these file, which make no sense to me, contain things like pard\brd\rt and b\tab\tab\t It has affected spool\printer. This file RDRS\BRD.RW2 is sitting in a directory with Adaware, Spybot, and AVG7. Does this mean anything to anyone here, especially the RDRS\BRD.RW2 bit? Thanks very much.

See if you can find anything with a multiple scan. http://virusscan.jotti.dhs.org/

Thanks, abnormal; but the reason I hesitate to do an online scan is that I fear that as soon as I connect, 300 people will get email from me containing the same bug. Is this not a concern? I would perfer to use floppies or CVD but..... I've do whatever i Have to do. (I'll see if my NOD has rescue disks, as well, but the AVG could not see in the files, so I don't know why NOS would be able to.)

So... make a backup of your email addresses, and delete them all from your address book. Then proceed. The worm can't send what isn't there. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

Right. Thank you.