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by tmarcott

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I'm not sure this qualifies as a discussion, but I've put together a web page with instructions on removing the dreaded MTX virus. I found that all the major anti-virus companies had information that was incomplete. I pulled information together from several places and combined it with my personal experience to come up with a page that works. I've received email from all over the world that confirm that my instructions work. I just wanted to pass it along. The page is at:
http://www.skidmore.edu/help/virus/mtx.html

Hope this helps!

Tom

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by rrussell110

At first I was very optimistic about the info obtained from your article. Your attempt to assist other 'techies' is very gracious. However, I in addition to the files specified at www.skidmore.edu/help/virus/mtx.html, is not quite complete, so here is the missing piece of the puzzle.

First off the win98 workstation I was working on, had 24000 files or so, of that number, 677 files were infected.

Remedy: Download a 30 day trial of inoculateIT from their site and install it. The program will do the rest. It completely removed all traces of the infection. NORTON 2000 and TREND OFFICE SCAN could and did not even acknowledge this virus as such.

So, there it, hope it helps someone. It took me the better part of 5 hrs. to figure this out.

by dw_chin

I had the MTX. Tried Norton's and some other programs but none would clean it entirely. I used your suggestion and it worked like a charm.

Thanks
DC

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