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Robp2001 <emails@pearls.com> wrote in
message news:8m2ue1$6ki$1@gxsn.com...

> you dident get the KAK virus from this Ng, unless you picked up a HTML
> message, because the kak virus is a html virus, these posts are plain text.

> almost certain it was from a email.

It was an html post in this NG.

Reasonable thread resulted, still visible in deja.


> Dane Allison <s358148@student.uq.edu.au> wrote

>> I got this virus from this newsgroup - reinstalled
>> windows but it came back through the emails i had
>> backed up. (after mcafee tells me it has fixed it)
> >
> > It seems that the only way to beat it is to spend  few hours working out
> > what it does - the virus is quite simple, infact you will find it quite
> > clever when you work out what it does..
> >
> > Just search for *.kak;kak.* in search and there will be a file inyour
> > system directory that is a .reg file. this is where the virus edits your
> > registry every time you boot. read it with notepad and delete the entries
> > it makes, and delete the file. Delete any other .kak files or kak.whatever
> > aswell, they are not needed by anything but the virus. The virus also
> > edits your autoexec.bat every time you boot.. and puts your old one as
> > ae.kak.. so you want to rename ae.kak as autoexec.bat, and overwrite the
> > old one.
> >
> > I followed the instructions on a web site posted by someone last time this
> > virus hit this group, and it didnt work, so try fixing it yourself..
> >
> > oh yeah and remember to make sure you have windows set to show all files,
> > because most of the virus files are hidden..
> >
> > I know this probably makes hardly any sense - but it was a few weeks ago i
> > fixed it now, so i am trying to remember ..
> >
> > Good Luck !!!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Marsh wrote:
> >
> > > I've just reinstalled Windows 98 and towards the end of start up I get a
> > > window entitled: C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\KAK.HTA.
> > >
> > > What is this window and why does it pop up?
> > >
> > > What can I do to get rid of it? Is it safe to delete?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Marsh.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > dane allison
> > email: s358148@student.uq.edu.au
> > ICQ: 15043255
> > www: www.baydolphin.com.au
> >
> >
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