virus problem

[TillEulenspiegel]

I got an older puter that caught a bug win 98. I think it was a double edged attack using buffer overruns. Got the virus but it wrote a bunch of files with longnames_ can't delete , can't recycle, can't use dos. How the fudge do i get rid of these artifacts? Do I need a system tool or drive utility?

[Riddick]

boot off your 98 cd-r, that will give you a clean os restart. then maybe you can fudge the dos command attrib -r -h filespec.ext and delete the things. del is an internal command, so it will always work --- from the cd-r.

[Thumbo]

Originally posted by Riddick
boot off your 98 cd-r, that will give you a clean os restart. then maybe you can fudge the dos command attrib -r -h filespec.ext and delete the things. del is an internal command, so it will always work --- from the cd-r.

If that fails, get a Knoppix disk and boot into Linux. That will let you do pretty much anything with any file.