[pchelpers] Unknown attack

 Hi all
I've got the strangest thing happen to me yesterday while I was on line. I was 
reading an article in a newsletter from Cramsession and clicked on a link which 
said "Read More". What I got was a pop up window like what you get when you 
want to download something and it prompts you to save to disk or open in 
current window etc. Without thinking I clicked on Open....and that opened a 
Pandora box!  I noticed something being installed on my system. Before I could 
do anything to stop it, it was all over! So were my apps, Internet connection, 
Outlook Express email etc. Nothing works anymore. The icon of the Word Viewer 
turned into a black pokemon-like monster! 
I have been reading this Cramsession newsletter for some years. It's all about 
exams and certifications and other techie stuff. This particular article was on 
CompTIA suing Troytech so I didn't even think of reading what that pop up 
window was about.  After shutting it down I booted up my older machine to 
continue with my work. Later that evening, I went back to it and it seemed to 
work fine. Didn't give it a thought this morning when I started it up. But 
towards the later part of the morning it started to act funny! It killed my 
Lotus WordPro, even notepad won't start up! And the online mentoring chat 
window just went blank! I went to shut down at "Start" but  it refused to 
start! I normally use the winkey for that but seeing it won't work I used the 
mouse and what I got was a small square with a computer icon saying "shut 
down". But fortunately it worked and I managed to shut it down. 
I wonder if anyone here had this experience. I want to know what was planted on 
my machine. I'm using Win98SE on an HP Brio workstation. Never given me any 
problem till now.  I hope I'm not zombiefied!
Any advice would be most appreciate...before I reformat which means I lose 
everything. Haven't backed up a thing yet! 
 
TIA.
Tonia
 



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