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Old 10-10-2006, 12:17 PM
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Question newwin32 virus

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on 10/09/06 my mcaffee stated that my pc had a virus NEW WIN32, the i performed a mcaffee virus scan and it appears to be attatcing its self to exe files on my PC. "c:avs\etc\avs_.exe, avswinup.exe, makedesk.exe, shortup.exe are a few of them. the only thing it appears to b going on right now is that mcaffee is telling me its ther every 5 seconds which is getting very annoying and i think im beginning to see some slow down. this is my PC at work and if it goes down itll complicate things very much. could someone plz help me out with the removal of this virus
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Hello,

on 10/09/06 my mcaffee stated that my pc had a virus NEW WIN32, the i performed a mcaffee virus scan and it appears to be attatcing its self to exe files on my PC. "c:avs\etc\avs_.exe, avswinup.exe, makedesk.exe, shortup.exe are a few of them. the only thing it appears to b going on right now is that mcaffee is telling me its ther every 5 seconds which is getting very annoying and i think im beginning to see some slow down. this is my PC at work and if it goes down itll complicate things very much. could someone plz help me out with the removal of this virus

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