Kurt M. Sanger wrote:

> Please help. I have a windows 98 system that is infected with CWShredder.
> I've used spybot, adaware, and mcafee to no avail. The program reinstalls
> with the next boot. I also have zonealarm, if I disconnect the network I get
> pop up errors stating that the network is down and do I want to work offline.
> I've also used CWShredder, which doesn't find anything. After rebooting and
> locking up on the network, adaware finds more problems. The only manual
> instructions I can find on line are for NT, XP, 2000 etc which have a
> registry entry for App_init_DLLs.
>
> If I enable Zonealarm to allow DLLs to access the internet, then I get a
> screen of IE windows to numerous locations until I run out of memory and must
> reboot.
>
> PS; I'm posting in the XP session as MS no longer has a win98 section. And
> I'm tired of working on this machine over the Holiday. If Linux were easy to
> install on it, I would.

There's still a win98 group: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion

Here is a list of all MS public newsgroups:
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

CWShredder is an anti-malware program to remove Cool Web Search
variants. It's not an infector.

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User