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by swat3commander

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Note: This question is not for me but I myself reply by e-mail and send him the klez killer from norton it might have helped him or not but posting what he ask me about this problem here. All for 200 points.

Ok, here is another scenario...

A Non Profit agency that I work for got hit with the same virus (I believe), and I had the same problems with some of the computers. I managed to fix most of them, but I'm having a hard time with the last one.

It's a Gateway 300 MHz. with Win98. I upgraded the memory from 64 to 256MB. I ran the scan from Trend micro?s website.

When I go to install Norton, the install terminates abruptly. I tried to go into Regedit to clear the registry. Regedit opened and I was able to start the find processlooking for Norton entries. But that also terminated abruptly. When I tried to open Regedit again it wouldn?t open. I got an error message saying ?Cannot find ?Regedit?(or one of its components) make sure path & filename are correct and that all required libraries are available...

So I installed the Win98 SE upgrade. Everything seemed to go great and after rebooting I tried to install the Norton Anti Virus the same thing happened. Same thing also occurred when I tried Regedit.

I scanned the disk, defrag?d etc?I went and scanned all the system files using the Win98 System File tool. There was one file corrupted Setupuxi?something to that effect and I restored it from the Win98 SE CD. It also stated that there was another file missing.

That file was Lzy1276.exe and I was prompted to restore/save it to C:\Program Files

I couldn?t find this file, either on the Win 98 SE CD or on any of the other computers that are running fine. What is this file?

I?m at a loss here, I needto get the computer up & running as it belongs to the Executive Director and she really needs it.
Any Ideas or suggestions how to correct the problems

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by chris.buckett

In these situations, I think that the computer may still be infected. Sometimes the best thing is to wipe and reinstall Windows.

An alternative solution is to take her hard drive out - put it in as a second drive in another (working and virus free) machine that has norton or other AV program installed, and scan/repair her hard drive using your AV program just to confirm that it is virus free.

If it is virus free, you can copy her data off her hard drive onto the working computer, wipeher hard drive and do a full reinstall.

Not a quick solution, but seeing as how the file Lzy1276.exe doesn't appear in the microsoft webstite or on a google search you may be stuck either looking for some personal software she has had installed.

by swat3commander

What I wound up doing was to download the Klezfix file from Symantec.I ran that in safe mode...It deleted 38 files and repaired 11. I than ran Win Doctor from the Norton Systemworks CD which repaired something like 71 files & erros.
After that I was able to install Systemworks 2002. I ran live updated and updated all the Virus' Dats. After updating I rebooted and ran a full virus scan in which Norton detected 7 more infected files.

Everything seems to be ok now, as I haven't heard any complaints.

My guess was the Lzy1276.exe file was a componet of the virus...nasty little bugger that it was.there is an interesting article in the current issue of PC magazine written by John Dvorak. He belives that the creators of this virus are testing the waters for complex two-step viral attacks in the future...very interesting reading

My thanks to all for your help and input Zmoustache

by bohicam1

Try this...put the virus removal tool onto a floppy. Disconnect the infected computer from the network, reboot it into dos mode and run the tool from dos. That should do the trick..if there are alot of system files corrupted, reinstall win98 into the same directory it currently exists.
Good luck!

Mike

by swat3commander

What I wound up doing was to download the Klezfix file from Symantec.I ran that in safe mode...It deleted 38 files and repaired 11. I than ran Win Doctor from the Norton Systemworks CD which repaired something like 71 files & erros.
After that I was able to install Systemworks 2002. I ran live updated and updated all the Virus' Dats. After updating I rebooted and ran a full virus scan in which Norton detected 7 more infected files.

Everything seems to be ok now, as I haven't heard any complaints.

My guess was the Lzy1276.exe file was a componet of the virus...nasty little bugger that it was.there is an interesting article in the current issue of PC magazine written by John Dvorak. He belives that the creators of this virus are testing the waters for complex two-step viral attacks in the future...very interesting reading

My thanks to all for your help and input Zmoustache

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