Re: WARNING!!!
I recently(last week) had a virus, and I have norton completely updatedated at all times w virus checks. I routinely catch the latest wave of "returned mail" viruses. Last week though, I just highlighted an email, not attachment, and the mail program froze as norton alerted me of a virus.That part locked up too. At the same time I noticed the hard drive light working full speed, I tried to shut down the program w task manager but didnt work, weird. HDD light still going strong so I just turned off power. On startup I got the blue screen. I had to restart using startup disks and emergency repair disks as the system files had been corrupted. Got the system back online. Went back to the mail program (netscape7) and tried to highlight an old opened email and as soon as I did the program froze and hdd light was running . Tried task manager, same, pwr off but faster this time, and again got blue screen and had to restore system files. On restart I noticed a new directory on c drive called "found.000". I deleted it and the unusual files in it. Then when through the same process to see If I had deleted the virus, and again computer locked, I pwred off, blue screen, restored it. I again found a "found.000" directory on c:. Deleted it, ran Norton antivirus full scan overnight, picked up 7 viruses, and now everything works great,no found.000 directory, but norton deleted my netscape inbox file. I had to restore that from a prior save. THe files in the "found.000" directory were created 4 hours before the first lockup event. An FYI.