I have a virus on my pc. i didnt know this until i started
suspecting when my pc crashed whenevr i played games or
watched windows media movie player. So i did a virus scan
and it said i have pate.b.worm or me.parite or something
(samething). It infects .exe and .scr files(explains why
my screen saver doesnt work). I had no problems till i
used the virus scanner(housecall) to clean and all it did
was corrupt .exe files on my pc. but it made backups so i
renamed the .rb0 backups as .exe and it worked. But my pc
was still crashing. i suspected overheating, this was in
the fall of 2003. Then i tried cooling it. No help. So I
removed a ram stick in the first slot. It stopped freezing
when i played games. Now its been freezing a lot lately,
and not just when i play games. so i bought a new ram
stick and tried it(512 mb ram) and it crashes a lot more
now, even sometimes on turn ons. when it crashes, it looks
like power went out..monitor goes black but then turns
back on revealing the last image i saw, but this time with
the new stick of ram, colors are everywhere but on the
last image i saw before it froze. its annoying. PLEASE
HELP! i turned off system restore. The hp company(i have
xp) didnt give me a restore disk..only thing i can use is
windows restore. but if i turn it on, it would get
infected. also, when i go to play games, i cant without
reinstalling or copying the game exe from cd rom each time
i go to play(before it gets infected...it used to get
infected a lot but still work before i used the virus
scanner). any reasons for the crash and how to remove this
worm? these tutorials on the net suck.

You're going to have trouble, probably increasing, until you clear out
whatever is continuing to infect the machine. Try following the
instructions here: http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm And why aren't you
using a regular anti-virus program, even a free one like AVG from
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php ? Look for the version 6.0.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


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>I have a virus on my pc. i didnt know this until i started
> suspecting when my pc crashed whenevr i played games or
> watched windows media movie player. So i did a virus scan
> and it said i have pate.b.worm or me.parite or something
> (samething). It infects .exe and .scr files(explains why
> my screen saver doesnt work). I had no problems till i
> used the virus scanner(housecall) to clean and all it did
> was corrupt .exe files on my pc. but it made backups so i
> renamed the .rb0 backups as .exe and it worked. But my pc
> was still crashing. i suspected overheating, this was in
> the fall of 2003. Then i tried cooling it. No help. So I
> removed a ram stick in the first slot. It stopped freezing
> when i played games. Now its been freezing a lot lately,
> and not just when i play games. so i bought a new ram
> stick and tried it(512 mb ram) and it crashes a lot more
> now, even sometimes on turn ons. when it crashes, it looks
> like power went out..monitor goes black but then turns
> back on revealing the last image i saw, but this time with
> the new stick of ram, colors are everywhere but on the
> last image i saw before it froze. its annoying. PLEASE
> HELP! i turned off system restore. The hp company(i have
> xp) didnt give me a restore disk..only thing i can use is
> windows restore. but if i turn it on, it would get
> infected. also, when i go to play games, i cant without
> reinstalling or copying the game exe from cd rom each time
> i go to play(before it gets infected...it used to get
> infected a lot but still work before i used the virus
> scanner). any reasons for the crash and how to remove this
> worm? these tutorials on the net suck.