This is from the AVG FAQ at: http://www.grisoft.com/faq/us_faqindex.php?id_rodice=25 If the virus continally shows up, you may have to disable any "Restore" features you may have depending on your operating system. Re-enable this feature when you get a virus-free scan. FAQ - Frequetly asked questions and answers MAIN SECTION >> The virus was found – information and removal instructions AVG found a hidden extension, what does this mean? AVG gives the following message: Warning: hidden extension . exe Some viruses hide themselves by doubling their file extension. For example, the VBS/Iloveyou virus attaches a file, ILOVEYOU.TXT.VBS, to e-mails. The default Windows setting is to hide known extensions, so the file looks like ILOVEYOU.TXT. When you open it you do not open a .TXT text file but instead execute a .VBS script file. Because of the increased use of this technique we have added detection of the double file extension into AVG. Of course there are cases of valid, harmless double extensions, e.g. uninstall.rar.bat, which is part of some installations of the RAR compression utility. *************************************************** I recently installed AVG antivirus and everything was fine until I stupidly opened an email attachment purporting to be from my ISP. Now I continually get 24 infected files that are found on scan, but AVG reports they are "healed". If I run the scan again immediately, it reports the same 24 infected files. The nature of the problem is "hidden file extensions". Any thoughts? Grisoft, Inc. (c) 2003 top webmaster homepage "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode