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To: broken_cookie who wrote (14505)	1/4/2001 12:37:02 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

richard i have not heard of anything more on that virus. but then my only real source of info is the same link you posted, symantec. sorry can't provide any more info. hope your friend gets squared away. are you helping them? :) mark

To: broken_cookie who wrote (14505)	1/4/2001 2:50:53 PM
From: R Jennings	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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