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bufadora

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HELP!!!
« on: April 28, 2006, 01:01:49 AM »
I'm trying to help a friend...he had Norton Antivirus and we found several worms/viruses that it took care of.  It could not delete the Trojan.  He took it to a local computer shop.  They uninstalled the Norton and installed Avast.  We keep getting Avast pop-ups saying everything is infected...Excel, pinball, photo shop, etc.  In our confusion we kept clicking on "delete", thinking that it was trying to delete the Trojan worm. and I think we deleted programs we never intended to.  Now we are afraid to turn off the computer for help, in case everything gets deleted.  Is there a way to reverse the actions?  I checked the recycle bin and there is nothing in it.  Have we ruined the computer?

Offline Lisandro

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Re: HELP!!!
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2006, 01:32:24 AM »
Are you using Windows XP?
Can you schedule a boot-time scanning?
Start avast! > Right click the skin > Schedule a boot-time scanning.
Select for scanning archives.
Boot.
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Offline xistenz

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Re: HELP!!!
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2006, 09:47:25 PM »
Maybe you are infected with the new Polip virus.

http://www.avast.com/eng/win32-polip.html

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=53738

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.polip.html

Can you give us the name of this virus? Try to run a virus scan in safe mode
« Last Edit: April 28, 2006, 09:49:41 PM by xistenz »