Centurion

If this is of any help, a couple of weeks ago I got hit by the w32b/pate virus. I don't know if these two act the same or whatever..but wouldn't hurt to try.

I THOUGHT I too was free of my virus when I ran virus scan and there was no sight of it. So I shut my computer off, and came back later, booted back up and wham..it was back!

HOW HOW I asked myself too. Then after doing a little reading on the virus I found out that it HIDES a copy of itself in the windows/temp directory..usually as some sort of inane .tmp file.

So, I went in and deleted ALL the files in the windows/temp directory after running my virus program again, and was able to get rid of all of them but ONE..yep..the virus..Windows wouldn't let me delete it cuz it said "in use". So, I pondered what I should do next and what I finally did (WHICH WORKED!), was rebooted but hit the old f8 (now, this is for win98se, so don't know how it works on xp or 2k) and booted up in dos. While there, I went over and THEN deleted all the temp files and FINALLY, I had triumphed!

For what it is worth..