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From: "Robert Zeoli" <[log in to unmask]>


> Hi
>
> When windows (98se) completes booting up I get the
> following message opened in a dos window  "wininit.exe
> cannot run in windows".  The PC seems to work okay  when
> I close the window and move on.  I am wondering if it has
> something to do with a virus that AVG detected and cleaned
> on my machine a day ago, the I-worm RC5.A?  Any way how
> do I get rid of it poping up on boot?
>

Yes.  Worm is better known as Worm.Bymer  or w32.hllw.Bymer

To remove message run sysedit select win.ini file
find load=  and run= lines  and delete c:\windows\system\wininit.exe

Worm description and step by step removing instructions are in

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.bymer.html

Some recommendations.
1) worm spreads over shared network resources. If possible never
   share whole disk at least do not allow writing
2) use firewall.

Toomas

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