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Emails all over my PC

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rharbin

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I believe my PC has been infected by some virus. I suddenly have hundreds of Outlook Express email ?TYPE? files in almost every folder on my PC. There are two or three hundred with a single file name ? the name of some non email file on my hard drive. For each file name, there are several hundred email type files and only a handful of OE News ?type? files with the same name. They are all 78K in size and were all created in just at about the same time. This allowed me to find them all and delete them. However, when I rebooted a whole new set was recreated. I ran my old ? out dated Norton virus checker which showed no results.

Other problems:
When I boot up, OE and Windows media player is launched.
When I click on one of these weird files, OE launches and opens an email with no text ? but it has an attachement that you are unable to open.
When I launch Excel 97, it opens with lots of garbage in a single cell of a spreadsheet ? makes me think the startup excel file is messed up.
Word works OK but I get an insufficient memory when I try to save something (with nothing else running and 256K ram).
I normally use Outlook 2000 for email. I can?t open or read any emails. OL is really messed up.
My alternate PC is also infected ? it is networked to the one I?m on now.

I?ve had PCs for 10 years and built the one I?m on. This is the first time I have seen anything like this. I'd like to avoid reformatting my hard drives ? I?ve done it before but it?s a long and time consuming thing.

Any thoughts/advice? Thanks very much in advance. Ron
 
The emails appearing in every folder is a symptom of the Nimda virus, according to what I've heard. Not sure about the other symptoms though.
 
Ryukumu is right. It's NIMDA and it will spread to any computer networked to it. If you can build your own PC you should have known better than to not have good up to date virus protection.
You can look here for removal instructions. However if you want to address this problem correctly, and you should, you'll want to format. After catching this virus system integrity cannot be guaranteed.

Oh yeah....after you're done invest in some virus protection and keep it up to date.
 
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