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AVG Reports?
Name: Old Salt Date: November 21, 2006 at 03:51:06 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: P4-3.2/512 Product: Generic
Comment:
Hi all,
AVG (Free) is telling me: Partition Table (MBR) has changed, I did a backup using Acronis True image, and suspect this is what AVG is seeing. Can anyone confirm this?
AVG also reports a virus detected in C\WINDOWS\system 32\shell32.dll AVG advises “Change” I suspect this means it has detected a ‘change’ Anyone had this, or can throw any light on it?
Also: “C\ WINDOWS\system 32\drivers\etc\hosts” This is shown as “Reading Error” Anyone had this, or can throw any light on it?
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