Tess_Trueheart
10-09-2002, 09:21 PM
Ok, here goes the stupid question(s) of the year, I'm sure:
Running Win 98, NAV 2000. Also AVG. Have had two different 'bugs' quarantined in the Q-vault for quite a while, one described by NAV as 'JS.Exception.Exploit' (or by Trend as 'JS_Seeker.Z1', based upon the detail of the url foisted upon me in the changed Registry), the other as 'VBS.Seeker.Family' that came packed in a globesearch.com bomb.
Now, I've never had to delete a virus from Quarantine before, things have almost always repaired themselves via the NAV in the past. So I've been a bit leery of acting on my own here, but I've talked the ear off of all my techie friends on what to do next, and they all throw up their hands in despair and advise me to just lose everything to a wipe and full restore. Arrrrgh, nooooo!
The 'VBS.Seeker.Family' is said to have originated in C:\WINDOWS; the 'JS.Exception.Exploit' says it came from C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\{me}\cache
So -- if I were to attempt to delete these (then do any appropriate repairs in the Registry thereafter - that will be another question later on, on how I need to do that), would it be deleting ONLY the 'VBS' and/or the 'JS' file(s), or will it delete the file/file folder it is said to be captured from in the original location(s)???
I could live without the Netscape (I also use IE of course), but to delete Windows itself and having only a funky factory QuickRestore disk to work from is not my idea of fun ...
Please tell me it is safe to delete these from the Quarantine vault and I will not lose the use of anything if I do!
Another downside to these infections is that apparently a few .dll's or something must have been affected finally, because my CD-burner software suddenly won't function, so I can't backup any more files off of the system as I had started to do. And of course, the burner software is also restorable only from the stupid factory QR disk ... :(
Another oddity -- I supposedly had all updates/patches in place and yet the JS Exploit still got past them!
"Help me Obe Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!"
Running Win 98, NAV 2000. Also AVG. Have had two different 'bugs' quarantined in the Q-vault for quite a while, one described by NAV as 'JS.Exception.Exploit' (or by Trend as 'JS_Seeker.Z1', based upon the detail of the url foisted upon me in the changed Registry), the other as 'VBS.Seeker.Family' that came packed in a globesearch.com bomb.
Now, I've never had to delete a virus from Quarantine before, things have almost always repaired themselves via the NAV in the past. So I've been a bit leery of acting on my own here, but I've talked the ear off of all my techie friends on what to do next, and they all throw up their hands in despair and advise me to just lose everything to a wipe and full restore. Arrrrgh, nooooo!
The 'VBS.Seeker.Family' is said to have originated in C:\WINDOWS; the 'JS.Exception.Exploit' says it came from C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\{me}\cache
So -- if I were to attempt to delete these (then do any appropriate repairs in the Registry thereafter - that will be another question later on, on how I need to do that), would it be deleting ONLY the 'VBS' and/or the 'JS' file(s), or will it delete the file/file folder it is said to be captured from in the original location(s)???
I could live without the Netscape (I also use IE of course), but to delete Windows itself and having only a funky factory QuickRestore disk to work from is not my idea of fun ...
Please tell me it is safe to delete these from the Quarantine vault and I will not lose the use of anything if I do!
Another downside to these infections is that apparently a few .dll's or something must have been affected finally, because my CD-burner software suddenly won't function, so I can't backup any more files off of the system as I had started to do. And of course, the burner software is also restorable only from the stupid factory QR disk ... :(
Another oddity -- I supposedly had all updates/patches in place and yet the JS Exploit still got past them!
"Help me Obe Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!"