Old Virus, Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger

Question

I have an old virus, Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger, which I have read about being easy to kill but am unable to.  Right now it is only effecting my system restore & is not letting my windows update complete with a SP 1 Framework update, anyway I have Norton's Virus protection which is updated but will not detect it.  Norton's website says that it is hard to detect but easy to kill, but does not tell me how to kill it.  Please help.

steveacan · Answer

Sorry, I have a dimension 4600, windows XP, SP2, 250gb hard drive, 512mb ram.

mccarthy001 · Answer

Time to make the switch to XP sp2.

steveacan · Answer

I do have XP SP2, I said that an update on windows was hanging probably because of the virus.  Does anyone know how to kill the Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger?  My updated Norton's version does not detect it, please help?

msil217 · Answer

Did you try: 1. Restarting the computer? 2. Opening task manager, and killing drwatson32 from there?? Here is some info I found by using Google. Message Edited by msil217 on 03-16-2006 11:16 AM

steveacan · Answer

I didn't find drwatson32.exe in the task manager, but did go onto the site you sent me & post the message there also, seems alot of people through the years has had this virus, old, can't believe no one has found a quick fix for it by now.  It was invented with windows 3.1, but loves to hide very well in windows XP & actually harms it worse.  Weird virus, cannot be put on a disk or floppy, only by large email.  Wish some1 could kill it quickly for me??  Thanks

msil217 · Answer

It might not be a virus. You can try disabling Dr.Watson by the link below:   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;188296   Make sure, however, you try the online scans. You also may want to post this is the spyware/virus area of Dell forum.

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