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SFR: my friend craig is coming over to try to eradicate a virus from his windows machine: AntivirusXP 2008. has anyone here successfully ousted it? nm

Posted by auld lang syne loves mandy lane (aka amanda) Dec 31 '08, 09:33

where SFR is "sorry for repost."

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Evil Evil Evil piece of virus. - Mel Profit Dec 31, 09:55
I finally managed to purge it, but it took a lot of work. Let me see if I can find the app that did the job. -- nm - Mop Dec 31, 09:43 2
- A lot of sites suggest the unfortunately named Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware. (link) - Mop Dec 31, 09:49
- thanks so very much, mophead. -- nm - auld lang syne loves mandy lane Dec 31, 09:44
I think my friend had it. Had to reformat -- nm - oblique Dec 31, 09:38 1
- obviously I'm loathe to do this, but I worry that it might come to that if the tools we're finding aren't working. thanks for the hopelessness. -- nm - auld lang syne loves mandy lane Dec 31, 09:40
I think "eradicate a virus" is code. Like "let's get coffee." -- nm - Cuzzin Tauld Lang Syne Dec 31, 09:37 1
- Any opportunity to get some -- nm - budice Dec 31, 09:39
Is that the name of the virus? I've never heard of it -- nm - con_carne Dec 31, 09:34 1
- it was making the rounds on campus before shutdown, but since we're shut down, we have no IT alert on it. (more) - auld lang syne loves mandy lane Dec 31, 09:37

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