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March 2nd, 2001, 08:15 AM
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Replacing virus-infected dll file
Before I do this (having never done it before), please, someone tell me I'm doing the right thing, as follows: Norton Anti-Virus located a virus in wsock32.dll. Norton flagged the file, renamed it wsock32.vir, and left it in the original c:/windows/system folder. The advisal was to replace the original file with a clean copy of wsock32.dll. I have downloaded wsock32.dll from this site. It is in my downloaded files folder. I have removed the wsock32.vir file and placed it on a floppy.
I am now at the following stage of this operation: I see a wsock32.dll in the original folder with size: 40.0KB (40,984 bytes) 49,152 bytes used. I have a "replacement" wsock32.dll on standby with the size notation: 65.0KB (66,560 bytes) 73,728 bytes used [this is the downloaded file]. Do I replace the one with the other? Or did Norton give me a "clean" copy when it created (I guess) wsock32.vir? I don't want to do anything that I'll regret, and I'm new at this. Thank you to anyone who's taken the time to read all this mess.
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