Hi, I really need some help. I hope I'm in the right forum. I'm running win98 SE. I found the Junkie virus in memory while trying to repair windows. I reloaded windows but when I try to connect to the internet it just keeps popping up IE error and won't open a browser. I had Norton 5.0 installed but that became corrupt also. I managed to get out of DOS and BACK to windows, but windows isn't working right. I was wondering if I wipe out Windows and FDISK the hard drive, will this eleminate all virus'? Thanks for looking.Greearski....You should have posted in COMPUTER viruses and spyware , but as your new here .........here will be ok.
Junkie is a virus that infects .com files, the DOS boot sector on floppy disks, and the master boot record (MBR) on the first physical hard disk (drive 80h, drive C). The file form of Junkie does not become memory resident. It simply checks the MBR or floppy-disk boot sector for infection. If the sector is not infected, the virus infects the drive and returns control to the infected host file. The file form of the virus also contains code to target and remove from memory the antivirus TSR (VSafe), which shipped with MS-DOS 6.x. The virus code is two SECTORS in length and reserves 3 KB of memory. Thus, on a computer with 640 KB of memory, MEM would report 637 KB and CHKDSK would report 652,288 bytes of free memory.

If you do a full format and a clean install , you should be ok .......You may have picked up the virus from a floppy disk . It is also responsible for disabling your Norton AV

dl65

dl65..Thank you so much..Sorry about the wrong forum. Didn't know if this was a virus problem or windows problem.

I Thank you again