[KidsDad]

I am unable to unhide my System32 file. I have tried to follow the instructions in a previous post between Chiu and austin_o on May 28, 2005. I have tried using Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View Tab to View Hidden files and System Files, and I have tried from the command prompt using the attrib command.

Help please.

KidsDad
5/31/05

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[g2i2r4]

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[KidsDad]

I completed all of those steps before hand. I should have stated that in my original post.

I solved the problem. A previous post on Geekstogo helped.

I deleted the code that the worm placed in my hosts file by editing the hosts file in DOS. I am not an expert at that and I am very rusty on it. However, I managed to do it by trial and error, deleting all of the code that the worm placed below the the line that contained
127.0.0.1 localhost
in C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc

That and various cleanup softwares and reboots got my system32 folder visible again. Note that I never was able to get it visible using the attrib command in dos.

Thanks for getting back to me.

[g2i2r4]

Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear everything is OK now.