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From: spodosaurus
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:08

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Dieu Phan wrote:
> hi,
> my sys. got attacked by a virus name W32.HllW.Gaobot.gen (the file 
> explored.exe)
> Norton2004 detected it but can not remove. I guess it is located on my 
> home server \\slackbox\shares\exlpored.exe (samba folder), physically it 
> is on /home/pub/explored.exe of slackware Box
> my question is:
> -should i move explored.exe to windowsXP then using Norton to delete? or 
> using a linux anti-virus software to delete it?
> any idea? and which anti-virus program is good for linux?
> your help would be much appreciated,
> regards
> dieu

It's a file on a linux share? Well, if it's a windows virus, the linux 
machine is not infected. Just delete the file.

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