The nastiest virus ever created: Seti-BOINC!?
(nastiest because it comes with users request, in good faith to do some beneficial work, not with downloading from some pirate web-sites and it is not recognized as virus by my most advanced virus protection!)

What else I can say after years of giving my computer time to crunch thousands of results with millions of others and now, after forced to move to BOINC when Classic sites were stopped, I am only seeing (from all these “spiderweb-like” message boards) that many if not most of us are experiencing to participate in time consuming and worthless project. “No work from project” is the most common answer we get! Last straw to break camels back was when BOINC started to block my modem stopping my internet and e-mail access. I definitely must work offline with my dial up and got nervous when almost each time when reconnecting I saw the warning: “Program has changed…do not….allow if etc.!!!”
It gave me a lot of work and all day (or several, as it repeated) to find out the guilty and then BOINC stopped even to react to icon in notification area. And then when Windows did not want to remove the program, that was really enough!
After I managed to close processes from Control Panel system hardware, Windows (hopefully) removed the program. This is not the procedure recommended by Windows, and not known by majority of us “normal” users, especially in developing countries where people only have dial – up and working without any hope of IT support. I read in one of these threads, in a pages long technical description of how to clean some bugs that assumptions (of author) is that user is mostly member of some LAN or company’s intranet requiring all proxie’s settings etc. This is (was) not the case with Set Classic which was not the site for programmer-nerds only!

I only hope that the possible remains of BOINC will let me now continuously to use my modem. Then I might look some time in future if there is any significant and reliable update in project, otherwise Good Bye Seti! Or other projects – no question until that!!

I only hope that the possible remains of BOINC will let me now continuously to use my modem.

I use a modem. No problems whatsoever. I believe the virus on your system isn't BOINC.