Re: we seem to have a viral infection . anybody help?

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Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:59:55 -0400

enable your firewall and try these online scans:
Online Virus Scans
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://security.symantec.com/ssc/home.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

"Gavin Denton" <Gavdenton@aol.com> wrote in message
news:uVVeomyfEHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hello
>
> My friend has a pc with xp home installed. He was running without a virus
> checker so we installed AVG which brought up that he had a viral
infection.
>
> We ran the program and it said it had cleared the infection.
>
> He then went on holiday for three weeks. When he switched on his machine
avg
> wasn't visible in the status bar. So he pressed the programs button and
> pressed the program link to start it. It appeared in a box then vanished.
It
> wouldn't appear !!
>
> He asked me and i tried to start task manager to see if it was running but
> task manager appeared then instantly vanished then closed.
>
> It souds to me like there is a viral infection stopping access to both the
> ant virus program and task manager.
>
> Anybody can help us sort this problem out
>
>
>
> Keith Denton
>
>
>
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