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Question by Mark
Submitted on 12/17/2003
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I have Microsoft XP and I am plagued with a virus call mssys.ext which has attatched itself to my directory and will not let me delete it.  I have the latest anti-virus software and I run add-ware to eliminate spyware.  This virus often changes my internet homepage, downloads additional bookmarks and slows down any programs that I might be running.


Answer by The_pangolin
Submitted on 1/21/2004
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Have a look at www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html.

I deleted the program "mssys.com" via DOS commands, having exited Windows. Or, try renaming it then deleting. Related files to the virus are "msdos.exe" and "SVCHOST.EXE" (important: the latter is in upper case if it's a virus - the lower-case version is a valid Windows file).

Hope this helps

 

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