[supv26]

I have recently noticed that when I start up my PC here at home I see something new. I have an old pc (1998) win98 1st edition, and when it starts I see all the DOS script. At the end of that part it shows something like this... c:/> but now I also have that and another that has this "tvdumpglags" after it. What is that? I have AVG antin virus and Zone Alarm runnig all the time and it dosen't show I have any virus'. Is this something I should be concerned with?

[Brian Lewis]

Might be a 'TVMEDIA' spyware program, run thru these INSTRUCTIONS to make sure its not that. You should also be running SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.3 and AdAware on your machine. A virus scanner is not enough.

[novaderrik]

wow.. a functioing version of win 98..
rare, indeed.
i bought my computer new direct from Dell in Sept of 98, and for the first few years i had to reformat and reinstall win 98 about every 5 months on average for various reasons. then in the fall of '01, i got XP pro, and haven't had to redo it since then.
i am definitely not a power user, and have never had a virus on my computer- even without ANY sort of AV software- but Win 98 would still find a way to screw up from time to time.
what i'm saying is that it might be time to upgrade- a reformat will kill any virus on the drive, and if you get a good version of XP, the computer will be more user friendly.

[choptop]

Download adaware SE, install it, update to current definitions file, restart your pc in safe mode (F8 on boot), run adaware SE in full system scan, delete any found files- reboot!

If your pc is fast enough I'd follow the advice given above and install XP. Windows 98 is full of security vulnerabilities and software glitches, plus it was released almost 7 years ago!