Posted by Paul Gunstone on November 22, 2003, 10:32 pm, in reply to "Re: paypal Worm!!!!"
Hi All, I had this b****y virus get past Norton today!Don't know if anyone else has had it,but luckily Norton had a repair tool that managed to remove it from my computer!It prevents you from connecting to the net,and then if you are lucky enough to get connected,it causes a windows severe error message to appear and then totally shuts your computer down!You cannot do a system restore and if you are lucky enough to find the files,you cannot delete them!I had to download the tool from the Norton site,but it still took nearly 45 minutes to clean my computer!The virus is listed as: W32.Welchia.Worm,anyone else heard of this virus?If not gents,be warned!! PS:I dont know how it got into my computer because I have not recieved any emails in the last few days!I guess it came in through somewhere else while I was surfing the net!Only worry is that I have a very high security firewall in place at all times! All the best gents, GUNNER!