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by allisonmea

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What is c.exe and why/how does it get into my startup folder? I keep deleting it because it seems to be making my win98 system crawl, but it keeps being regenerated.

Does anyone know anything about this royal pia?

Mike Allison

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by tootypuck

Have you opened it to see what it is? Have you deleted it just from the startup menu? It sounds like it might be in your autoexec.bat file which loads automatically at startup. You can try to uncheck it there or go into your registry if you havent already and try to find it there and delete it, just make sure you don't need that file or folder first To get to the reg. type in "regedit" in the run box. You could also go to your system configuration utility page and do a selected startup and remove the check mark by autoexec.bat and restart your computer see if that takes care of it,if it does then you know it is in the autoexec.bat . Windows 98 does not need the autoexec.bat or the config.sys to operate. They are for backward compatibility. To get to the system config ut. type sysedit in the run box.

by allisonmea

I had already barely been able to install spybot.s&d which is freeware. It removed a whole bunch of junk, but the problem remained. The following viri were found by mcafee when after about 30 attempts I was able to get explorer to let me access a website. W32/bugbear.b.dll; W32/Bugbear.b@MM; Exploit-ByteVerity; Js/Seeker.gen; Proxy-Guzu; JS/IEStart.gen;

Those were the viruses, and Bugbear was in the following executables: AcroRD.exe; Kazaa; realplay; WinZip32; mplayer2; aim; winamp; msimn; explore; hh; MPLAYer; and WINRAR.exe (all exe)

I let Norton antivirus lapse in April. When I finally could afford to upgrade, I couldn't hit the Symantec site, so I ended up using McAfee.

Fun...educational...royal pita.

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