VIRUS galore...

Right...

Use AVG Free Edition http://free.grisoft.com and follow these steps and it will be gone.

Step 1 - Turn off System Restore - Control Panel, System, System restore tab, then check "Turn of system Resotre"

Step 2 - Restart computer in "Safe Mode" - Start, Run, type "msconfig", then OK, clik tab marked "BOOT.INI", then check /SAFEBOOT, then OK, then Restart.

Step 3 - while in safe mode, scan your entire computer with your updated antivirus software and remove infected files.

Step 4 - Repeat step 2, but this time un-check /SAFEBOOT and restart. After restart, turn system restore back on.

else get MoveonBoot : http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html

Which deletes files on boot

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Originally posted by *PiRo*

Right...

Use AVG Free Edition http://free.grisoft.com and follow these steps and it will be gone.

Step 1 - Turn off System Restore - Control Panel, System, System restore tab, then check "Turn of system Resotre"

Step 2 - Restart computer in "Safe Mode" - Start, Run, type "msconfig", then OK, clik tab marked "BOOT.INI", then check /SAFEBOOT, then OK, then Restart.

Step 3 - while in safe mode, scan your entire computer with your updated antivirus software and remove infected files.

Step 4 - Repeat step 2, but this time un-check /SAFEBOOT and restart. After restart, turn system restore back on.

That's what the symantec site said to do, and it still didn't work however I will try your second suggestion

Did you try it? If it can't unlock it there is also an option to have the file deleted on a reboot which means it will be deleted before the file is "locked." I have yet to see a file it couldn't remove. Also, it doesn't unlock the file by killing the process that the file is tied to. It does it by removing the "hooks" to it.

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Originally posted by *PiRo*

else get MoveonBoot : http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html

Which deletes files on boot

Thanks all for the help...this option finally worked. I appreciate all the responses.. hence the reason I've been on this site for nearly 3 years

for future referance


if you ever need to delete a file that is "locked" and or currently in use by windows


use this tool

http://ccollomb. free . fr/unlocker/


remove the spaces

move on boot is a great lil application, have used it several times, and it works like a charm !!

Use this program...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Unlocker.shtml
It will unlock the file no matter what, and just delete it...

google hijackthis (freeware) download. remove problem.
first post.

Maybe I should read the whole thread before posting...