Brian A. Sesko:

Thanks for your message.

You don't mention the name of the "nasty virus".

The unique identifier for the Trojan appears to be ...

"Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c"


I've posted messages about how to get rid of this thing. The
remedies I've found appear to be arduous and risky. I hope to
get my files backed up before I try any of these remedies.

I haven't heard about "FProt". Running something at the DOS
level makes a lot of sense to me. I'll be trying it.

I'm not sure I'd chance it even with an up-to-date av
on the other 98 machine, but you could pull the
compromised drive and install it in the other 98
machine as a slave and then copy your data files.

Actually moving the drive is sort of "at the end of my list".
It seems likely right now that I will end up there.

I have download a bunch of different virus scanners. One of the
ones who's scan is free--but not the removal--seems to detect
it. It's hard to know which of these virus tools are of any
value.

Another difficulty is that my hard drive on this machine is
almost full. It's an old machine with only 7 GB of total disk
space. As with so many things in my life, "I should have done
something about this a long time ago."

Thanks again for your help.

--Less