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Redemption

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Need help identifying virus
« on: February 28, 2010, 12:22:58 AM »
My grandpa is having problems accessing his pictures, it says that they are not found. I've run a scan with avast and avira and it comes up clean. We have no idea if it is malware, but I need to know about what malware messes up jpg's and other picture and it associated extensions?
I'm just trying to find out the problem here. I can provide information, and I am computer literate, but I just need a list of  in the wild stuff that would cause it. 

We can not open the pictures in any program, we have tried paint, infranview and windows picture viewer. No luck, I will post pictures of the error
« Last Edit: February 28, 2010, 12:40:07 AM by Redemption »

Offline Pondus

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Re: Need help identifying virus
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 01:19:54 AM »
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I've run a scan with avast and avira and it comes up clean.
Are you running avast and avira at the same time?



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