Badtrans.A worm (W98)

[manderly]

Hi everyone,

I'm really new at solving virus problems...it's my first time at dealing with this dilemma. I ran an online scan(from housecall.antivirus.com) and discovered that I have badtrans.A. Unfortunately , the solution requires that I run Regedit.exe, but everytime I execute it, only the general "find files/folders" tool comes up. There is no "Find What" text box.

Is it possible that Regedit has been corrupted by the worm?

Totally clueless,
Janine

[Simon Clausen]

Hello,

Does Regedit launch when you run it? If it does you can go directly to the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce] and look for a value called "KERNEL32", you then need to delete it. You also need to check your WIN.INI file and look for an entry called "C:\WINDOWS\INETD.EXE" and delete it also.

Regards,

Simon Clausen
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[jdharm]

If typing regedit in the Run dialog doesn't work, try regedt32(note: no "i" in "edit"). Instead of getting an Explorer style list and context menus you will get a screen with separate windows for each registry section and things operate from the menus at the top of the window.

Josh

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