MTX OR NOT??

[olgaportland]

I am not sure if this is a virus, so I have two questions. If this is mtx, how can I fix it given the fact that the cleaner will not run on this system, and if it's not mtx, are the registry keys fixed, when Windows or the program in question are re-installed? A friend brought me a computer, that is behaving exactly as when the mtx virus is present, yet the fixmtx doesn't find anything and the remmtx tells me it can't run in DOS/Windows and I get the same message, whether I attempt to run it from pure DOS or the Windows Start Menu DOS shortcut. I have also attempted to run it under Windows with the same result. I have run the antivirus program with yesterday's virus signatures and no virus is detected, yet the message "connection with server has been reset" appears without fail, when trying to get to the net.

They are using Windows 95, on a Pentium S, and AOL and can connect to anything at AOL. They can visit no website at all beyond the AOL server.

Would a clean copy of Windows, as well as IE help? I am not comfortable with the idea of changing registry keys myself on a computer that is not mine, as there are dire warnings on the Microsoft site.

 

[KimberTech]

The first thing I would be asking the computer's owner....what happened just before/during this error starting. Usually you can ascertain a fix quite well if you know they have uninstalled or installed something that messed things up, etc.

Wsock32.mtx is a fast hard disk search to see if you have been infected.
If you have not deleted any files on your system, and this file is present, you have been infected.

The long and manual version of removal is here:

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w95.mtx.html

If not, you have another issue here.
If the connection to the server is being reset, you can contact tech support and see if it is a setting for the connection, the modem, or something else on your end settings wise.

If it is none of these, I would uninstall, and then reinstall the TCP/IP protocol before I resorted to a reinstall of windows.

Post again if you need more help.

Good Luck!

Kimber

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