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Will Repair Install remove viruses?

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Name: GeminiTM
Date: September 23, 2004 at 06:43:56 Pacific
OS: WinXP
CPU/Ram: AMD 1700+ - 512 RAM
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To make my previous question easier: will repair install of WinXP remove viruses so that when I run virus software right after repair - I can get rid of them? I am talking about the annoying viruses that hang on to explorer.exe and other important "can't be deleted" files. Thanks!



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Name: XpUser
Date: September 23, 2004 at 06:54:11 Pacific
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I doubt that repair install of WinXP will remove viruses. If this was true, we don't need AV.

i_XpUser


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Response Number 2
Name: Martin Crandall
Date: September 23, 2004 at 10:17:54 Pacific
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Absolutely NOT! Repair installs only repair broken windows files. EVERYTHING else (virus included) is left intact.

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Response Number 3
Name: www
Date: September 23, 2004 at 21:55:19 Pacific
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that actually can spread the virus, to more files. depending on the virus.

running the av scan in safemode ,and replacing /overwriting files that are infected ,with
originals or backups. is the way to go.


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Response Number 4
Name: www
Date: September 23, 2004 at 22:07:45 Pacific
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try the free evaluation version of
TDS-3 anti-trojan
after install- copy the updated radius.td3 file to the tds3 folder in program files.


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