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[HollowSoul]

I was just wondering, everytime i run norton, or one of my ad/spyware programs, it says that i have an infected file or files.
total # of files are in the thousands, and slowly, one by one they are getting infected so i opt to delete em...







what is gonna happen when i only have 1 file left?

 

[marianne]

Backup onto mag media, wipe all your files (even the last one), & reformat the harddrive(s). Consider it spring cleaning

I do that every year on my home network. Reinstalling the OS and associated SW is about as much fun as sticking a pencil in my eye but it does improve performance and forces me to actually do a backup.

 

[mainman]

Don't forget to debug...

 

[FromTexas]

Stay off all those porn sites.

 

[woodchuck70]

Hollowsoul,
Get Microsoft's Beta Spyware Removal tool and run it on your system. That would be where I would start. It sounds like you have some pretty nasty stuff on your machine .

Also make sure your virus definitions are up to date. Are you deleting program files or personal files when you run these scans?

 

[HollowSoul]

ummmm, most of the time it says that there are no infections, just threats so i delete the threats

 

[tirdun]

If NAV is saying you have infected files and it can't repair them, its better to just delete them. You might be pretty far up crap creek at this rate so a reinstall might be you're best bet.

If your anti-spyware or adware prog is coming back with a handful of files then you're pretty safe. If they're tracking cookies... there's not much you can do, but if you keep wiping them out, they aren't tracking much. If it's a registry key, then you might have something on your box that's iffy. Some spyware or adware either keeps coming back (meaing you're treating a symptom, not the problem) or you keep getting the 'ware from some site you keep visiting. Either way, its possible that you're just deleting the same files over and over and something is putting them back.

 

[mingiz]

files

I had a problem also. I installed Symantec Anti virus with a firewall and Spybot. Both free down loads. I haven't had any problems since. I have had some files that spybot picked up but didn't delete them. So I had to go into the system registry and remove them from there. After that I haven't had any problems.