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Title: dust.exe ????
Post by: spooner on May 12, 2004, 18:59

hi guys

everytime i boot my pc up i get a message sayin windows cannot find dust.exe ??.
has anybody had this problem or know owt about it.
let me know
cheers

spooner

Title: Re:dust.exe ????
Post by: Clive on May 12, 2004, 19:12

I think you have a virus known as Duster which has arrived courtesy of Kazza.


http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.studd.html

Title: Re:dust.exe ????
Post by: spooner on May 12, 2004, 19:23

will do it now m8, cheers

Title: Re:dust.exe ????
Post by: Sandra on May 12, 2004, 19:29

Youre on the ball tonight Clive  :o

I have been checking up on that for the last 20 minutes and came back to post it and youve beaten me to it by miles  ;)

NB. Spooner, after deleting the virus do the registery editing thing mentioned at the bottom of Clives link or it appears it slows your internet down even after the virus has been removed  :)

Title: Re:dust.exe ????
Post by: spooner on May 12, 2004, 20:27

it doesn`t say anything about xp at the bottom

Title: Re:dust.exe ????
Post by: Dack on May 12, 2004, 20:50

start->run->sysedit

Modify the system.ini file as per the 98 / Me instructions (find the shell = explorer.exe command and make sure there is nothing after the explorer.exe)