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Win98 Gone Queer

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Over the past few days my Windows/temp folder has masses of empty .tmp files and a thing that calls itself winb313.exe.

Thanks for any ideas about how to get rid of them all.

I don't think winb313.exe is a virus or anything like that. Have you tried reinstalling windows? Remember, microsoft no longer supports Win 98 so maybe it's time to upgrade to XP.

Delete all the .tmp files and rename the .exe to something innocuous (just in case it's important so you can get it back).

Re-start the system and see if the .tmp files come back if not QED :o

winb313 doesn't give any hits in Google or the major virus databases so I don't think it's a nasty.

As noted above, time to consider an upgrade. If your hardware won't run XP at least try Windows 2000, more stable and still supported by MS at least partially.

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

Interesting, I tried google and yahoo and nothing came up. Tried the McAfee site with virus definitions and nothing came up.

They mutate so often that a literal search string doesn't always work.

They mutate so often that a literal search string doesn't always work.

Good point Old Bean, at least our OP now has a pointer to the problem :o

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

I'm surprised people still use WIN98!

Still about 2-4% of my web traffic (98/me)

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Thanks CNDVIC for pointing me in the right direction. Got Process Explorer and no trace of 313.exe anywhere from it a regedit. But it and I did not like two lots of IPMON and got rid of them both. So far so good.

When I get a new PC later this year I shall have 2000 going, XP has too many problems with old software. I am quite happy to write letters using Amipro!

After four hours I'm about to quite now and will make a final report tomorrow.

I still have a machine running win98, but not connected to the internet

I keep it going for nostalgia

Win98 actually was a pretty good OS. I went from that to ME regrettably, then XP which was good. I am now using Vista which I like so far.

Still about 2-4% of my web traffic (98/me)

I have Win98 running on a couple of machines at the lab here, however I set it up to run under XP using VMWare because the users didn't want to lose XP and dual-booting is a bother. Reason for Win98, some Physics simulation applications will only run under native Win98.

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