Re: virus removal difficulty

From: Robert Moir (bofh_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/13/04


Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:46:17 +0100

peid wrote:
> Ran my usual virus check on friday night and it came up
> with being infected with the w32.blaster virus.
>
> Got the most current fixit tool and ran it. When it had
> finished it said that that there was no blaster virus on
> my system. Ran virus check again and it comes up with
> having the virus still.
>
> I'm completely up to date with the current windows
> security patches as well so I really do not understand
> what is going on.

Your virus scanner is giving a false alarm.

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