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From: 98 Guy on 13 May 2010 09:56
deevarnado wrote:

> Question about antivirus software? I pulled my old Window 98 system
> out for my grandchild to play. I have a lot of old game software
> that will only run on 95 and 98 systems. To get to the point I ran
> antivirus software on it and all most all exe. and word documents
> are infected with TengaA and Wazzu.X worms and Virus.

> Other than total re-install and deleting is their a way to
> repair these files? I have restored to the oldest restore I can
> and I still have the worms and virus. Thank you if you can tell
> me how to repair other than reinstall.-

How computer-savvy are you?

I ask because this is no easy problem to solve.

I am cross-posting this to a few more active win-98 newsgroups:

- microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
- alt.windows98

Others there can reply to your situation.

I will also tell you that the windows-98 forum on msfn.org:

http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/8-windows-959898seme/

There was a thread there about a month or two ago about someone who's
win-98 system became over-run by a Tenga infection, and they described
how they dealt with it.

I would remove the hard drive from your infected system and attach it as
a slave to another Pc (say, an XP PC) or some other trused (known-good)
system that has a good antivirus program on it. If you scan the
infected drive for viruses, you might be able to recover the drive and
remove the viral infection.

Tenga is a file infector, and removal of the tenga infector from all
..exe files seems possible.
From: Don Phillipson on 13 May 2010 13:27
deevarnado wrote:
>
> > Question about antivirus software? I pulled my old Window 98 system
> > out for my grandchild to play. I have a lot of old game software
> > that will only run on 95 and 98 systems. To get to the point I ran
> > antivirus software on it and all most all exe. and word documents
> > are infected with TengaA and Wazzu.X worms and Virus.
>
> > Other than total re-install and deleting is their a way to
> > repair these files? I have restored to the oldest restore I can
> > and I still have the worms and virus. Thank you if you can tell
> > me how to repair other than reinstall.-

Reinstallation of the OS takes less than an hour, and much
old game software is likely to run from copies (i.e. without
reinstallation from the original disks) -- i.e. besides being
safer this is likely to be faster than identifying and replacing
every separate instance of contaminated system files.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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