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|    Witchsmeller Jason to All    |
|    Win 95 box riddled with spyware & missin    |
|    15 Dec 03 21:53:11    |
      XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc, alt.windows95       From: Power-Poster@power-post.org              Hi,              A friend has asked me to look at his flakey Win 95 box, which I strongly       suspect is riddle with spyware & possibly viruses (viri). I installed a       copy of Lavasoft's Ad-aware on his machine but when I ran it Windows       complained about WS2_32.DLL being missing. I downloaded a zipped version of       this from the net but when I extracted it (with winzip) I could only find a       html doc in the chosen directory, no DLL? Frustrated I gave up & downloaded       the file on my XP box, extracted it and eventually copied it to his system       folder. After running Ad-aware again his box then complained about missing       WS2_HELP.DLL (or something very similar, I can't find the piece of paper I       wrote it down on). I think a virus &/or spyware has altered his machine       which is causing many problems.              Does anyone know a way to fix this PC, as I can't seem to extract zipped       DLLs on his box I can't keep driving to his house to find out which DLL it       needs next only to have to go home, download it on my PC & return - there       could be 20+ files missing!              I don't mind if someone has come accorss this problem before & supplies a       list of possible DLLs that are missing, I can download them all and take       them round on a disc. Alternatively maybe there is an app that I can       download that can scan which files are missing? He does have the original       Win 95 disc if that helps, any advice greatly appreciated. I've also tried       Spybot & I get the same results.              Thanks, Jason.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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