possible virus resident preventing VS4.5.1 or TC install

[drev1l]

People of the forum,

I have a dilemma with a number of pcs in one of our offices. It has a number of old win98se with arabic support PCs and win98 japanese pcs that appear to have been infected with NIMDAE at some stage. Although they had various old virus scan progs on them they haddn't been XDATed for a long time...
I ran the nimda removal tool from symantec repeatedly until it told be there were no more viruses, I then tried to install first Vscan4.5.1 and then TC but each time when the program attempted to do a scan it just sat at the scanning screen and didn't progress. I had to force the scan to stop to complete the install. Once the pc asked for reboot it just stopped at the virus scan banner. I had to boot in safe mode and remove virus scan again from add remove programs.

My question is could the virus have corrupted some system file to cause this? I actually once managed to get the pc to boot by disabling the system scan but it stated that "virus definition files are corrupted".

Any advice greatly received.
drev1l

 

[AVChap]

Try downloading the Stinger utility from NAI:

http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe

Saved a friend's PC using this once . Once you're done, try re-installing 4.51

HTH, AVChap
... take my advice, I don't use it anyway!

 

[drev1l]

AVChap,

Thanks for the tip I will give it a go...

regards

drev1l