Re: Virus Question

Thanks to all for your helpful suggestions.

I'm not very experienced with viruses, since I had never had one for
10 years. But, with kids going to these download sites, I've had
three in the past month.

I appreciate your help.

DG

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:45:18 +0100, Shep© <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:59:08 -0500 As Androids Dreamed Of Electric
>Sheep and then U-571@xxxxxxxx wrote :
>
>>I have a virus, somewhere in my Win2000 PC, called mshtml3.exe. I
>>can't find the file to remove it. My virus software, AVG, identifies
>>the virus as a "trojanhorsedownloader.generic.EVK, but can't delete
>>it. I have found some very involved instructions for removing the
>>virus.
>>
>>Question:
>>
>>Can I just reformat the partition, or zero out the entire HD and
>>eliminate the virus? That would be much easier than trying to save
>>the currently installed OS.
>>
>>Thanks for helpful suggestions.
>>
>>BG
>>
>
>Try A-Squared as an addition to AVG.See if it helps.
>http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

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