'evening everyone,

Long time since my last post, I've been good and kept machine tidy with DaniWeb recommended tools. Daily and weekly updates and manual and auto scans with AdAware, Spyware...

Done already, but thanks !

Here are my results:

- I ran HijackThis to check and fix the line..

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL

..but there was no such thing to check !? Is this OK that I don't see running processes...

Now I'm curious :) I might give it a try, can't be worse than once-upon-a-time NAV for Win98, as a bonus it's available in Windows and Linux - perfect marriage for my new double OS machine.
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Thanks, that's what I thought..too many guards makes crowd at the gates.

I already have Norton Anti Virus 5.02.04 installed and regulary updated. Can you point out with few words what would I...

OK, I admit I'm posting a lot these days, ever since I installed a multiple anti-everything protection. Feeling much safer is a good thing, but now I'm facing another extreme...machine is painfully...

Yesterday I (finally) armed and protected my Win98SE old and battered laptop, following instructions I was given by a good soul on this forum. One of many guarding tools is ZoneAlarm that I left...

Sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been away for a week, but today I finally managed to find so time and do my homework according to your instructions. Here's the outcome:

- AdAware checked...

Recents escapades with "Red circles", followed by relentless attacks of unwanted "items" (one session with AdAware revealed 82 extras !!), like recent encounter with Alexa, found by AdAware (gave me...

I guess this particular post is calling for a closure, too many people in distress to spend more time that really needed just for one. I order to be forced to seek help from experts on Dani Web as...

It's in attachment of my previous post, but if you prefer to see it in the text, here it is:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 12:19:09, on 29.05.2006
Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x...

Latest news:

- I ran Active Scan once again to see if I can choose some different settings to avoid automatic Outlook launch. This time instead My computer I chose local disks to scan. The...

Nope, those are gone, but there's quite a lot of stuff that Active Scan found on the hard drive, so how am I gonna get rid of those if I can't make Active Scan to finish and clean the filth ?

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OK, here's how it went:

I followed the procedure, downloaded smitrem.exe, copied shortcut to desktop and did the same with Panda Active Scan link. Rebooted machine in Safe-Mode, ran HJT.

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A follow up, while humbly waiting for further instructions - like alternative Anti-Malware tool, equally efficient to Ewido and Win98SE compatible (Ewido is available for Win2000 and XP only):

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Hello Burton,

Thanks for such a fast response. There's a small problem though, Enwido is for Win2000 and XP only, at least that's what is stated on their web site/Enwido download page.

Kind...

Hello,

Browsing the net I received a present in a form of two red circles with X on my desktop shortcut bar down left (Win98SE). I found a post from 2005 about HijackThis installation and saving...