S. Ring has badtrans virus

I got it as well this a.m. It used the "re: re: a2gs on harddisk30 thread. I use Pegasus and don't open attachments or fomatted msgs which occasionally also turn up on the list. Curious, I attempted to "View" the audio docs/doc.pif file and stupidly pressed "Open" instead. It ran and I got several out of memory windows and an illegal operation/close program one. My Norton came up blank since, of course, it's a new virus. Checked my classiccmp folder and saw Allisons heads-up which gave the identity. The Sophus site descibed it and how to remove it. Searched my HD and sure enough kernel32.exe and kdll.dll were there. They have to be removed by dos since they're locked in Windoze. It also usually puts an entry in the registry according to Sophus, but wasn't in mine since I hadn't opened it by the usual route or something. What a pain in the butt. Sophus says it's the top worm at present. lawrence Reply to: lgwalker(a)mts.net