A friend of mine got a virus this evening through MSN, and we are struggling to get rid of it. The computer has Windows 98SE OS, and Norton Antivirus.
The message sent to her was a link, and said something about a funny picture, and a link to jose.*********/cute.pif. It sends to contacts by typing itself, you can see the cursor move as if there is someone typing it, but can't see the words themself being typed.
We did a search for it, and it appeard to be the bropia worm, and installed the removal tool found at
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/ven....removal.tool.html. It said it could not find the bropia virus on her computer.
It installed a toolbar, itsbar, which we removed through spybot, although a whole bunch of porn links were not removed at the same time. Since then, the search functionality on the computer has not been functioning, typing in a url causes an illegal operation every 3 or 4 times it is done, excessive pop ups are occuring, for kelkoo, bullseye and casinos, and it will not allow a pop up blocker to be downloaded, nor would it allow anything like spybot to be downloaded, saying that the security settings will not allow it. It has blocked the security settings in Internet explorer from being changed. Norton will not work, it scans as if there is only a few files on the computer, which is the same thing that the search does. From time to time, a random dos screen comes up, although it flashes up so quick we cannot be certain it is not a pop up.
At one point, before it was removed, there was an itsbar.dll error come up, titled fahkpym came up, this term did not appear on google.
This is all I can think of at the moment, is there anyone out there who can shed some light on the subject, nothing seems to be working or helping!
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