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To: broken_cookie who wrote (14505)1/4/2001 2:50:53 PM
From: R Jennings  Read Replies (2) of 110652
 
I searched a couple of virus sites (as I'm sure you have) and I agree that the prolin/creative virus doesn't seem to cause damage that prevents booting. It does mention that it loads itself on startup so maybe while your friend was trying to undo the virus (as we all would have) they may have caused some problems or they have a different virus.

'The worm then creates a copy of itself with the name Creative.exe under the subdirectory
C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
The worm can do this only if C:\WINDOWS is the user's default Windows directory. Consequently, the worm is executed each time the user loads Windows after turning on the computer.'

So for arguments sake do they remember what they did and what the symptoms were ?

Good luck !
Rob
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