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Jul 3rd, 2003
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Re: Removing ISLE.exe

I had a lot of problems with Norton. Tried BullGuard and had better success. It updates an average of twice a day. You do have to pay to keep the system updating ($39/year), but it seems worth it to me - it has caught it's fair share of bugs coming through - but no anti-virus software is 100%, nor will they ever be. It is the mind of the virus creator against the computer and the brain will always win eventually.
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Sep 21st, 2003
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Re: Removing ISLE.exe
Dear people,

The isle.exe is in fact the Bugbear virus. See this quote from virus info from McAfee:

"Installation

The worm copies itself to the START UP folder using a random file name (such as):

* Win98 : C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\BSFS.EXE
* 2k Pro : C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\BSFS.EXE "

It uses a random file name. Sometimes this is isle.exe.

I helped my neighboors because the were suffering from a slow pc. So I took out their hard drive, and attached it in my computer running McAfee VirusScan Online. It had no trouble removing the bugbear virus (and several other virusses...). My neighbours used a really old Norton version with old scan engine. I'm going to suggest to them to buy a proper virus scanner.

Cheers

Gahan
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