Re: bad virus



Xray wrote:
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Well, the virus hosed Avast, seemed like an option worth trying,
since the alternative is basically to reinstall the OS.
Kaspersky detected the problem, was unable for whatever reason to do
anything about it, so I moved on.
At this point, since I've nothing left to lose, I'm going to unistall
Avast [again] and try AVG.

Have you tried running MalwareBytes as Lipman suggested. (renaming,etc)?
Have you tried installing and running SuperAntiSpyware (free version)? You
may have to rename the superantispyware.exe to something like xray.exe or
xray.com.
Buffalo


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