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December 25th, 2008, 06:41 PM
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| 19 virus infections, virus protection tech supp no good
Hi everyone, My PC running windowsXP, has 19 virus infections, I think that one or more of them is responsible for the fact that I can not download and install stuff, like even adobe flashplayer, ect. Nothing. The error message says that the application is not a valid system or windows (I forget which) 32 ... something. I have called and e-mailed tech support at bitdefender and so far no luck. They have asked me to look things up, and in my travels I found some of the same names of the viruses listed in the scan box, in c;\programfiles and system32. What can I do?  | 
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December 25th, 2008, 06:55 PM
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Go to Panda and download their free scanner.
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December 25th, 2008, 06:57 PM
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December 25th, 2008, 06:59 PM
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Thanks, I'll try both and report back. | |
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December 25th, 2008, 07:03 PM
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went to Panda Programming Home Page and found that they do not have antivirus software there. but they did say to use a professional grade e-mail program such as Pine from the Uninversity of Washington | |
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December 25th, 2008, 07:05 PM
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December 25th, 2008, 07:44 PM
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December 25th, 2008, 10:29 PM
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Trendmicro-house call didn't remove any of them but there is a new infection. Can I just go to these files in whatever place they are and delete them manually? Or will that hurt my computer? | |
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December 25th, 2008, 10:31 PM
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I am going to try CC cleaner. Some of these places want to give you a free trial but it does not do the full job. If you want the malware removed "completely" you have to pay.
I may have to reinstall windows. Someone was telling me about Linux Ubuntu, they said it is better and has virtually no viruses. | |
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December 25th, 2008, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by zoku  I am going to try CC cleaner. Some of these places want to give you a free trial but it does not do the full job. If you want the malware removed "completely" you have to pay. | Malwarebytes is not one of those places...you can download it, update it, run a full scan and it will remove everything it finds without asking for a dime.
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