For once Im not blaming E-on for my troubles. But it seems that my computer has caught and nasty bug call dl.exe. Its not going away because I think it is on my pop sever and every time I down load anything this little guy is hopping a ride. I have been doing a lot of downloading from e-on and other sources. Could you run a scan by just file search and see if you gotten it too?

Dale

Who are you addressing this to? What Virus Shield do you use? I have great confidence in my shield that it kills all viri. In the past it always has. I use AVG.

This bug go right by the firewall. Anyone who has down loaded all the patches from E-on. I woundering if this thing is back father than my own Pop sever. Dale

Not on my computer and I use AVG also. Been using it for 7 years or maybe more. :o) I have been downloading the updates and roll backs from e-on and I have not gotten a virus by doing so.

All clear on my end I use AVG as well.

All clear here & use PC-Cillan and have a router. Never got a virus from them. If I did,it would not be pretty LOL

Ok Thanks I've just downloaded AVG hopefully it will cure some of headaches I've been getting. Dale

Had an alert from Kapersky while downloading the update too, Kaperski got rid of it while downloading.

The bad news: Over 2000 copies of the same virus found on my Pc The really BAD news: AVG reset my XP windows to where it is asking for a password. I have never used a password on my home computer. I can't get windows to boot up with out it. Dale

Take the machine into safe mode (press F8 the moment the machine starts) and run AVG from there. Also download Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-aware and run them as well. If the tojan is one of the coolwebsearch variants run get and run CWshredder. All are free.

I think I have them. I know I have the CWshredder. But I can not log on at all. Not even in safe mode. I have another computer so I will download and will try some unlocking programs. If not I'm going to try an old hard drive and reload windows XP. Thanks for the help. Dale

AVG wiped out every .exe file on my hard drive. I'm going to spending days reinstalling programs. Dale

"AVG wiped out every .exe file on my hard drive." Never see any anti-virus do that before. Windows uses .exe's and if if AVG deleted these then windows wouldn't work. It probably wouldn't even load. So given this and your post (11). You have other technical problems. As you have to reinstall anyway. Backup then format the drive, run scandisk and defrag to check for physical drive problems.

A couple of sites that may help you (hopefully virus-free).. http://www.iamnotageek.com/a/dl.exe.php http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.nthack.html It seems that dl.exe (and its aliases) don't attack .exe files, but hacks into your e-mail addys and the like (and other nasty vandalish things). So if your .exe files are infected it's with a different virus... Cheers, Diolma

I had gaelicum.a virus on my computer according to AVG and it clean them all and tolled me to reboot. It removed all the exe files on my computer when it rebooted. Every program is gone. I did have to reinstall windows. It not a total loss because I still have all my data but the program is gone. Like I have all my poser files but the exe file is not there. It removed over 2000 exe files so my computer will never be the same. Dale

Really sorry to hear whats happend to you Dale. But glad to to see you have backups. It seems regardless of whatever anti-vrus you ran the end result would have been a trashed PC. The gaelicum.a virus is really nasty. http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?p=2832313 reports... "particularly dangerous is that it appears to affect any/all exe files.once affected, it will probably require reloading of the infected exe or complete software reload." In addition, it appears to attack the exe files once you access the folder/directory. (it goes right in and grabs the exe files.) So, it very difficult to run anything .. as soon as you do, it gets infected. " Overall, get your data off, wipe the machine and re-install.