Sality Virus and Win98Se Help

Hello World,

Have had a rather nasty encounter with this virus, it seemingly may have removed the internet explorer icon, outlook express got shot down by bitdefender free, which initialy found the Sality virus but then deleted or moved the infected outlook express folder and or shortcut and so as of now cant access outlook express file to delete the file which bitdefender keeps claiming is infected - pain in the posterior - the Bitdefender may have also nailed the I.E shortcut / .exe and couldnt even find a link by using find / searching for an I.E link - to access the i-net.

Tried booting in safe mode "Bitdefender" the antivirus just doesnt run / load.
Cant seem to locate the Bitdefender quarantine folder either not that i ever looked for this before.

I did manage at one stage to open a ms word file and enter in an email address www.google.com put a space and thus turning it into a link and accessing the net that way and trying to download an app but of course like all these one stop 100% download fixes said it was for the wrong version etc... although nothing on the site suggested versions variants or anything else begining with V.. After downloading this it turned out to be a one off internet access, as this method now also fails, I.E just pops-up with "there was an error" well wip-de-do dont bother telling me that without an error code "expletive" 98

This unit is the print server for a small workgroup of 15 units and given the nature of this virus it needs to be removed and the sooner the better, would prefer not to have to registry tweak this or delete entries just need this to function for another month or two prior to it being upgraded.

Software environment is Win98 SE with office 2000 Bitdefender Free antivirus - updated earlier this week.
Hardware platform is is Hp Vectra DL-400 CPU is P/3 @ 733Mhz

Thanks to all who respond with info or an assist on this one. :wave

 

Thanks for the response Tim,

I could potentialy go through the trouble shooting process, but decided easier - as far as time and effort goes to just image a little used identicle unit in this workgroup and re-add the printer drivers, set the static I.P and call it lunch.

The units bound to be quicker than it ever was with all the years of the old "junk files" on it - so thats my solution...not a Gee?...eek! fix as such but a work around.

P.S I've put a several threads up since joining awhile ago, can someone please inform me how to close a thread when the issue has been resolved.:confused

Sorry working 11 - 12 hour days all the text just blurs together after awhile. As a suggestion it would be great if the person who has created the thread had a check box or similar, perhaps near the "submit reply" or "preview post" that said "post and close thread" or similar so you can add last minute thank-you's and close it...only a suggestion.

Thanks again.:wave

 

Thanks for clarifying that Tim.

Have nothing further to add, have completed a re-image just fine, thanks.