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Anti Virus closing instantly
Name: Evan Date: April 6, 2004 at 10:24:26 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P4/256
Comment:
I recently upgraded from Me to XP and have discovered several problems with my system. Everytime I opened my anti-virus software it closed almost instantly. The same problem occured when I tried to run regedit or any command functions. My antivirus worked in safe mode with no problems detected, but online scans found a trojan and the agobot virus. I think I have cleaned and/or deleted these using avg and a2, and my antivirus now works upon start-up, but I would love someone who really knows what is what to confirm that I have cleaned things up. There are still several HijackThis entries which seem odd to me, but I don't know enough to want to make additional changes. Anyone out there familiar with this sort of problem?
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: April 6, 2004 at 11:26:57 Pacific
Reply:
First question, what anti-virus software are you running?
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Response Number 2
Name: Evan Date: April 6, 2004 at 12:06:21 Pacific
Reply:
I am running McAfee 8.0 and AVG 6.0
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Response Number 3
Name: Tufenuf Date: April 6, 2004 at 12:12:12 Pacific
Reply:
Evan, Go to the link below and download the "Fixswen.inf" file.
"Save the fixswen.inf file to your local hard disk, right-click on the file and choose install".
"A Setup INF file to undo registry changes made by W32/Swen@MM and other threats that prevent REGEDIT, BAT, COM, EXE, PIF, REG and SCR files from running".
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