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Old 12-16-2006, 09:20 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Wow. Anything that says .exe installed that cannot be deleted would scare me. Especially, if it's a known virus.

Many times, the reason why you cannot delete the file is because it's currently being used. What you would have to do is to find the entry in your registry (I don't know the location but usually if it's a well known virus, there is a posting somewhere that tells you how to get rid of it) and delete the registry so that when you restart your window, it won't get loaded. Then, you can delete the file.

There is a difference between Anti Virus program and Anti Spyware program. For Spyware, there are two free ones that works pretty well.

Spybot Search and Destroy
Lavasoft's Ad-Aware
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