Hi All,
I am working on a Win98Se box for a friend and are at my wits end!!!
When I first got the system, I was told it may have a virus(es) on it. Not able to connect to Internet, slow performance, etc. After installing Norton’s Internet Securities and loading the lasted Virus defs, I found 8 different items, although not one virus. I tried to remove with NIS, no soap, the program couldn’t remove. Had to manually remove. Now shows clean.
Installed Ad-Aware 6, with lastest Ref-file. Found ~980 items, Malware, data miner, adware, etc. Removed in stages, couldn’t do all at once, system kept hanging. Now shows clean.
Still can’t get to Internet. I keep getting a DNS error. Even though I have set the DNS settings manually. Still No Joy. I can ping out and ping in from another computer. The only thing that has shown up consistently is a SAHAgent file. I’ve removed it, severaly times, still propagates self. Removed it from Registry, same problem. Realized GoBack was installed, uninstalled, SAHAgent, now gone.
I have reinstalled Windows on top of system to clean, haven’t formatted and went from there; YET! A lot of files that have no backup and not able to backup, unless I install a small hard drive. But no install programs for many downloaded games they have bought. Format and fresh install last resort.
Does anyone have ANY ideas? I have run out of things to try and am pretty frustated at this point. I am going to manually set an IP address on this box and see what happens. It seems my DNS settings are getting blocked, but I can’t figure out by what?
TIA, Roger