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win 98 iexplore.exe virus?

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Name: John II
Date: August 1, 2003 at 03:29:49 Pacific
OS: Win 98
CPU/Ram: 1000/ 128
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Hi,
I really don't know whether this is a serious virus or not. I have Norton Systemworks 2003 installed. I ran the scan and it didn't detect anything. I installed AVG and immediately it detected a virus in the program!
Now i couldn't access the web until I reinstalled iexplore (6.0). What to do now to avoid it in future?
thanks.



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Name: blender
Date: August 1, 2003 at 09:24:18 Pacific
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Avg detected virus in norton?....sometimes another av program will do that because the antivirus program has the virus definition strings stored in puter to detect viruses...which is why you cant run more than 1 av program....they will conflict and create false positives.....unless...you got NAV2003 from untrusted source such as file sharing places like kazaa....
Knowing that any av program won't detect every known virus...what I do is periodically do a scan online with trend micro's housecall. But I also temporarily disable current av scanner to prevent conflicts.
AVG is good but if your norton av is legit program..I would keep it...It is much better in my opinion...I'm not saying your NAV is not legit or anything...just listing couple possible reasons for avg flagging virus in it.
Hope there is something in the mess I just wrote helps a little....
Good luck


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