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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:45:03 -0700
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As an added safeguard to what Don has suggested, I would not only 
temporarily turn off the system restore but, with the system restore 
off, I would restart in Safe mode and do a complete virus scan and 
spyware scan with up to date definitions. Then restart in standard mode 
and turn the system restore back on. This measure may not find anything 
else, but, other than using time, it can't hurt.

Tom

Donald DeWitt wrote:
> In Need of Virus Help
>
> I have been running AVG on my computer for several years and never had to
> use it until now. After downloading some files I ran a scan and it detected
> a problem and I'm not sure just what I should be doing to prevent a serious
> infection here. The AVG program is informing me that I have several backdoor
> Trojan Generic5 infections in my Documents and Settings and a Ms-Dos virus
> in the System32\drivers and also a change in the shell32.dll file. I think
> the program placed these things into a "Volt". Before I shut the computer
> down is there something I should be doing with these files? When I try to
> delete the files from the "Volt" I get a warning message, "Do you really
> want to remove the file from the virus volt?" I'm not sure what to do here.
> I ran the program a second time and it states there are no threats. What is
> going to happen with the infected files? Should they be replaced?
>
> Help,
>
> Don DeWitt
>
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