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Re: Can not get rid of 3 trojan horse viruses in Win2000



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Hello John,
Try  restarting  in  safe mode which prevents most start up items from
running at start up.  That might allow you to remove them.

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 11:19:34 AM, you wrote:

JB> Hi,

JB> Using AVG free edition 6.0 I have detected 3 viruses in Win2000 Professional
JB> in C:\WINNT that are attached to win32.exe, svchost.exe and wmsro32.dll

JB> AVG can't get rid of them (can't move them to the vault). I tried doing a
JB> reinstall of Win2000 but this did not work. I am a little concerned because
JB> they are trojan horses (I am not sure if they are true viruses).

JB> Does anyone have any suggestions before I do a complete reformat and
JB> reinstall.

JB> Thanks,
JB> John Bowles.




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