Virus Problem?

[wnied]

Did a fresh install of Windows Millennium on a relatives system. The relative is known for screwing around with SNID and SUB7 like programs. Upon Fdisking with /MBR switch and without, I formatted and installed. System ran fine until I installed Norton AV 5.0. Once installed, it ran fine, then when I updated it on the web, it constantly tells me upon boot up that it cannot initialize the boot scanning files and looks like its auto protect is disabled. Yet when I open it, it says that auto protect is enabled. Then, I started to notice a file that popped up on the desktop that says _Hash648131 I never saw this before but my instincts tell me its a boot sector virus trying to stay alive by thwarting Norton AV.....Anyone ever encounter this problem?

Any help is appreciated.
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[qiu]

Get a old nice 1.44 disk floppy formatted in 98 with format a: /s option, put a DOS ver of any good recent anti-virus program on it (on other "clean" comp), boot it there & see what the problem is...

 

[wnied]

Turns out this wasnt a virus, but still acted suspiciously. When Netscape would boot up after being prompted to run, it would give me all kinds of "java script errors." Once i clicked on cacel or Ok, this "_Hash" file would create itself on the desktop...which immediately sent up red flags that something was wrong. Turns out that the Netscape web browser and the "Bluelight.com" free internet services are conflicting with one another...why I dont know as Bluelight is supposed to be compatible with IE5 or Navigator 4.x.

Damn shareware programs!
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