Strange Virus/Trojan help

[Sly]

On my old pc(Win 98) i get a a program (C:\windows\odbc.hta) everytime i start up my pc. it slows down everything until i hit ctrl-alt-delete and exit out of it. i searched google and found sum people have the same problem. avast!anti-virus, spybot, adaware dont pick it up after full updates. anyone know what it is? and how to remove it?

thanks ahead of time

 

[munchyman]

try emailing norton or something and asking how? I recommend searching for it in that directory first, but ask norton or someone anyway.

 

[KillerMe]

Hmmm, it seems to me that deleting a virus file is never a bad thing to do. Do you have an anti-virus?

 

[Sly]

yes, avast home edition. ive done everything i know how, i even searched for all the files. but the thing is, is that the file that is infected is needed by IE, i believe.

and i dont think im gonna email norton because i dont use ther anti-virus.

any other ideas?

 

[Guest]

Try getting a better Virus Scanner. Never heard of avast home edition

 

[Sly]

u havnt? i found out about it from PC MAGAZINE. it is very good. its caught everything so far, but this thing isnt recognized.

 

[munchyman]

well...it seems youre the only one whose heard about i so far...get a better one....like mcaffeee or norton. chances are, if more than a couple people havent heard of it, its not all that great. theres free online scans you can run too, see if you cant pick something up there.


www.symantec.com

 

[Sly]

ya that mite help. let me check.

i just dont wanna spend the money on a AV.

 

[Crookedfoot]

try http://www.pandasoftware.com/ they have a free online scan lower left that is supposed to be good.

It's been a while since I've run '98, but could you go into the Startup of msconfig if '98 has that and set that particular thing to not run on startup?

As in go to the Run prompt, type msconfig hit run, choose the Startup tab and uncheck that line...
Again, it's been a while, maybe '98 doesn't have that.

It would be beter to properly remove it though, and stay away from downloads that may have brought it to you in the first place.

 

[Sly]

hmm, it isnt there in the start-up, but its still is there when i start up.

i got it when i downloaded a fake version of PestPatrol...ironic

i just use my firewall now and it cant get through to the internet, so its still there, but cant do jack crap.

 

[ShaftedTwice]

Delete the file. If something goes wrong in Internet Explorer, download it free from Microsoft. I hope that it doesn't affect anything else though.

 

[x42bn6]

Avast is just like Norton, and it's free, use it.

Crooked we need the computer forum.....

 

[Sly]

uhh thanks everyone i guess

 

[YaZouR]

go in regedit and search for the name of the file that runs every time comp start up.

 

[Lestert21]

put up a firewall and use norton aswell thatshoud do the trick but make sure that you have a good firewall too.

 

[Oxide08]

i found norton ainmt that good ... i still use it but it misses lots of stuff