Virus w32.weird removal using norton

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Steveo1970

Help !!! please
Norton 2005 AV has detected w32.weird twice on comp.
I have looked at the norton webpage for removal. It asks to get a
clean dos startup disk which i did. I put it in floppy and restarted
computer. It then came up with an A:> prompt , the website says to
type in the following
c:
cd windows
dir *.exe /a:h

when i type in the first , c: after the A:> prompt it says that it does
not recognise or something similar , i cannot get any further ,
please please help

Steve
 
Steveo1970 said:
Norton 2005 AV has detected w32.weird twice on comp.
I have looked at the norton webpage for removal. It asks to get a
clean dos startup disk which i did. I put it in floppy and restarted
computer. It then came up with an A:> prompt , the website says to
type in the following
c:
cd windows
dir *.exe /a:h

when i type in the first , c: after the A:> prompt it says that it does
not recognise or something similar , i cannot get any further ,
please please help
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This is the expected response if using NTFS. You need too boot to the
recovery console and pick up the removal instructions at "dir *.exe /a:h"
except use the command dir *.exe to list all EXE files. Also, in step 4,
the Attrib command is backwards, the correct syntax is:
attrib -h <filename>

Win32.Weird
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.weird.html

Recovery Console in Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../all/proddocs/en-us/recovery_run_console.mspx
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm
 
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