There is no telling how much damage the virus caused.
Viruses are designed to corrupt the operating system
and many times change registry permissions. They
even hide in "stealth mode", only to reappear at a later
date. Any good security expert will tell this.

Microsoft offers free virus-related support for the U.S.
and Canada. Users can obtain this support by calling
1-866-PCSAFETY. You may wish to give them a call.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"furball" wrote:

| That would be a serious overkill, and a solution of 'last resort.'
|
| There are 44 patches applied from the Windows auto-updates that amount to
| 274 Mb and I'm on 56K dial-up. Not to mention all the programs to reinstall.
|
| If you cannot restart the Windows Firewall without reinstalling Windows XP
| SP2 Home Edition, then Microsoft have a lot to answer for.
|
| What your saying is: If your car won't start - buy another car!
|
| Come on, anyone can take the easy way out. Even I can answer all these
| discussion Group questions by saying reinstall Windows to every one. That's
| a no-brainer.
|
| (You'd have been better to say - Get another Firewall.)
|
| Another easy way out.