How come these viruses can be found by the av programs but not cleaned or deleted? Thanks, Cristy > [Original Message] > From: Hank <hank@xxxxxxxx> > To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 10/6/2004 11:33:36 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: For Christy Re: Re: help, - infection for me also > > Hi, I did a online virus scan today and it said I had a virus in C:/winows/file.exe, Couldn't be cleaned or removed, I did a search and found it and deleted it, rerun the scan and was clean. > Yours Hank > ----- Original Message ----- > From: cristy > To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:19 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: For Christy Re: Re: help, - infection for me also > > > Hi Delores, > > Did your Nortons tell you where the infected file was located on your > computer? I wrote that down when mine told me. Since mine was in my temp > files, I used my cleanup program that cleans and deltes my temp files and > the rebooted and it seemed to work. I also use XP, and if that did not > work I was going to try going to a previous restore point. In my case > deleting my temp files solved it. Did you get your virus while searching > on google? > > Thanks, > > Cristy > To unsub or change your email settings: > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > For more info: > http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk