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[Jim DeMian]

Just in case this is not obvious to everyone else - it should have been to
me - this is a virus or at least spyware.

On the other hand, searching for "busty" on the Symantec site gave no
results, so that was of no help. And, yes, I scanned it with NAV first and
NAV gave it a clean bill-of-health. (Maybe I did not have the latest
update.) Figured "what-the-heck".

Bad choice.

It appears not to be a screensaver at all. Its job appears to be to "phone
home" and to re-start itself indefinitely. Stopping it with a no-start
utility will result in it re-starting itself. I don't remember seeing it
in the "task list." Zone Alarm, thankfully, does appear to have stopped it
from communicating outside the computer; do not let it get access to the
web. No idea what it would have done, had it gotten out.

It appears to be written in such a way that it cannot be deleted or moved in
Windows.

Re-start the computer in DOS, and DEL it.

It will be something like
del C:\windows\system\busty_~1.scr

Since DOS uses the 8.3 filename format, you cannot use its real file name
busty_stripper.scr to delete it; so far as DOS is concerned its name appears
to be as above: bust_~1.scr. That character is a "tilde". If DOS is a
foreign language to you, get an experienced friend to help.

Don't be embarrassed. It can happen to anybody.

This location shown above assumes that it was put in the windows/system
folder along with the other screensavers in W98.

Good luck. And may the rest of your weekend go better.

Jim

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