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how do I know if I have a virus
Name: Elaine Hudkins Date: February 11, 2001 at 20:28:07 Pacific
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I e-mailed my friend and she said her virus scan said my e-mail to her had a virus. Something about Matrix was in the warning.How do I know if I have a virus?
Name: print123 Date: February 11, 2001 at 20:35:08 Pacific
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do you have a virus scanner if so run it if not try www.trendmicro.com and look for house call it is a free scanner from the web be sure to check files it did not scan
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Response Number 2
Name: ioiou Date: February 11, 2001 at 20:45:05 Pacific
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Send an email to yourself & if you get two in return, one without any subject, it's probably the W95.MTX virus. If this is the case be prepared to format the hdd do a clean install.
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Response Number 3
Name: Chris Date: February 12, 2001 at 00:14:24 Pacific
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This is most definitely the W95.MTX virus. Look for MTX_.exe on your system, if it's there, you've got the MTX virus. Go to http://housecall.antivirus.com .... you can do a free virus scan there. The MTX virus will not allow you to go to either Symantec's (Norton Anti-Virus) or to McAfee's sites to get the latest virus definitions. For a quick fix (to just keep the virus from running on your machine and causing further corruption) delete the MTX_.exe file from your computer, and also run REGEDIT and do a search for "[matrix}" without the quotes. Delete the entire key.
This won't get rid of it, and you may also have some corrupted files on the computer. You shouldn't need to format the drive, however, as it mostly infects system files, which can later be extracted from the Windows CD using System File Checker (Start --> Run --> SFC) in Win98, or the EXTRACT command from DOS in Win95.
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Response Number 4
Name: T Date: February 12, 2001 at 04:51:02 Pacific
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You may also want to look in your: start/run/msconfig for this file. I just had a virus not yet on the books and although I cleared the original virus, when I did it planted another .exe file in there at the bottom so try checking there.
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Response Number 5
Name: Chris Date: February 12, 2001 at 07:21:58 Pacific
Summary: and WHAT IF you have a virus! if you got a virus that can't be detected? HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE IT! for all I care we all have undetected viruses, we just don't know it! ...
Summary: I have a virus that in IMs sends itself and says 'free porn' and I don't know what to do, how to get rid of it, and i don't know the name of it:-/ ...
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