hei!
yesterday i downloaded quicktime to see a movie about the canadian nova bus, a volvo company, in crashtest. about the same time my pc must have got screwed up. though doing several restarts yesterday night i just found it out today.
starting the machine, some iexplore-windows opened, adult and casino content - that really sucked. so i began deleting new programs from the control panel.
suddenly it became all white. trying to restart it was not possible because all the links in start menue were gone or didn't even show up.
restart: the system asks me for my win98se product key. well, i recently move to norway and seem to have forgotten the win98se-cd in homecountry germany.
ms-dos, f-prot-scan with files from march 2004:
c:\windumb\system\winpmj32.exe
...\bkmsf32.dat
"seem to be infected by an unknown virus".
can i simply remove these files? i have no idea what they are used for.
one more file in temporary internet files\content.ie5
i deleted the whole mist manually - it took ten minutes; something i never experienced before (do the deleting manually from time to time). the files name was protec~1.exe
on c:\ i found several unknown files and folders:
setupxlg.txt containing:
"time stamp (yesterdays about time of installing qt)
cbdiskprompt file copy canceled
time stamp
kbdno.kbd (my keyboard language file);win98_47.cab (i have NO .cab files on my hard disk!)
time stamp
e:\win98 (which is my EMPTY cd drive)"
the file continues with new variations of these words. deleted... btw, the last time stamp showed WEDNESDAY september 1st 2004, impossible, isn't it?
the folder programs (progra~1) contains new folders: sidefind, 180sol~1, istbar and pwers~1. i deltreed them all.
on c:\ i find another folder: intern~1, it contains by others a file named optimize.exe (damn american english...
). i deleted it. another new folder is called progra~2, including one more folder called intern~1, empty. deleted it, too.
so my question is: does anyone know the characteristics of these happenings? can i simply format c:\ without harming my seriously important and unbackedup data an d:\ ? it is one harddisk, divided by software. will the virus still be there? even if i may use linux from a download? is it possible to use the win xp cd of a room-mate temporarily or does this still violate the eula?
best regards and in hope for fast help
ungua
yesterday i downloaded quicktime to see a movie about the canadian nova bus, a volvo company, in crashtest. about the same time my pc must have got screwed up. though doing several restarts yesterday night i just found it out today.
starting the machine, some iexplore-windows opened, adult and casino content - that really sucked. so i began deleting new programs from the control panel.
suddenly it became all white. trying to restart it was not possible because all the links in start menue were gone or didn't even show up.
restart: the system asks me for my win98se product key. well, i recently move to norway and seem to have forgotten the win98se-cd in homecountry germany.
ms-dos, f-prot-scan with files from march 2004:
c:\windumb\system\winpmj32.exe
...\bkmsf32.dat
"seem to be infected by an unknown virus".
can i simply remove these files? i have no idea what they are used for.
one more file in temporary internet files\content.ie5
i deleted the whole mist manually - it took ten minutes; something i never experienced before (do the deleting manually from time to time). the files name was protec~1.exe
on c:\ i found several unknown files and folders:
setupxlg.txt containing:
"time stamp (yesterdays about time of installing qt)
cbdiskprompt file copy canceled
time stamp
kbdno.kbd (my keyboard language file);win98_47.cab (i have NO .cab files on my hard disk!)
time stamp
e:\win98 (which is my EMPTY cd drive)"
the file continues with new variations of these words. deleted... btw, the last time stamp showed WEDNESDAY september 1st 2004, impossible, isn't it?
the folder programs (progra~1) contains new folders: sidefind, 180sol~1, istbar and pwers~1. i deltreed them all.
on c:\ i find another folder: intern~1, it contains by others a file named optimize.exe (damn american english...
). i deleted it. another new folder is called progra~2, including one more folder called intern~1, empty. deleted it, too.so my question is: does anyone know the characteristics of these happenings? can i simply format c:\ without harming my seriously important and unbackedup data an d:\ ? it is one harddisk, divided by software. will the virus still be there? even if i may use linux from a download? is it possible to use the win xp cd of a room-mate temporarily or does this still violate the eula?
best regards and in hope for fast help
ungua
