Just got a virus

[Biff]

After downloading a space screensaver from a swatch site. I had a virus alert, whilst unzipping, I purged the file, then scaned my system, seemed ok. The virus was PWSteal.Trojan virus. My anti virus program (norton)gave some info on it, stating it steals passwords and sends them back to the owner. Do I need to take any other precautions, A re scan shows a clean drive. I did have some quirky things going on with my system; that I thought were originally due to norton sys works, it turned out the screen saver was installed. Should I be going to Microsoft and checking for security upgrades? I'm running win98SE release2

[welsh wizard]

Biff don't take any chances with viruses at this time of year, check out MS also any software co that does anti virus, I Symantec is of line so you will only be able to browes info at there site, they decided to give their staff the day off for a holiday, that was actually good of them, though for us out there neading support we will have to wait.
Happy new year by the way.
WW

[Wiz]

i believe that is an AOL virus, actually. Biff, if you have AOL, i suggest getting a PWSdetector, it installs itself and adds a line to the win.ini. If you have a back up of that, check it.

[Biff]

Thanks for the info Guys, I dont have Aol, but I did peruze the MS site, it has numerous upgrades for secure net stuff http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Biff http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif