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how do i get rid of this virus protection i didnt mean to download?
October 17, 2010
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i think you need to reformat and sart from fresh. The thing you downloaded is probably to new for the scanning programs to find. However if you waited a month, then scanned they may find it. t will be difficult to remove because you allowed it in, compared to something that sneaks in. The antivirus programs will think you want it, because the codes have been set to allow.
so a reformat may be best choice. Take the opportunity to do this
Partition the Hard drive – reasons
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Firstly C drive is compulsory for the Operating System (XP) (Vista), and you install all your programs on C drive.
D drive is made for YOUR files.
What you do is MOVE my documents to D drive.
When you download music, videos, pictures from your camera or make any MS Office documents or save emails, you save it on D drive.
\The reason for this is to do with
1. Hard drive failure – usually a failed hard drive will not boot, but can often be seen when hooked up as a slave.
So when you get your new hard drive up and running, you can copy D drive from your old to your new. You haven’t lost anything.
2. Virus. Normally virus are programmed to infect C drive. If you get a bad virus all that has to be done is format the C drive partition then re install you OS and programs from disks.
You haven’t lost your personal stuff because its on D drive.
3. Scanning your C drive for virus or spyware. These malware programs live on C drive. It is not necessary to scan D drive. It is a lot quicker to scan a small partition than a large hard drive.
Now you can see the above is compromised by the fact that programs get updates and lots of programs are installed from the net. Therefore if you had to wipe out C drive it be hard to get it back to how it was.
To remedy this we use Norton Ghost to image C drive and store the Image on D drive.
(Vista requires a version 10 or newer of Ghost).
If you get a bad virus you just use the Ghost disk to boot up on, then copy the image stored on D drive back over C drive.
It takes less than 30 mins to rebuild C drive.
Also you may have this running on say a 250 gig HDD, and it fails. You buy a new 400 gig HDD and install both into you computer, the failed one as a slave.
Using the ghost disk to boot up on, you partition the 400 C drive to 30 gig (XP)and the remaining to D drive. Then you repack C drive from the image. Then Copy your old D drive files to your new one. In a time of less than 1 hour and it’s all running. The image loads all the drivers, OS everything.
Then you update new images of C drive every few months so that the one stored on D drive is not to far out of date.
On XP and Vista you create C drive to a maximum of (XP 30 gig, Vista 40 Gig) It doesn’t need to be any bigger, so don’t make C drive to big as you will not use it.
All drives including external hdd should be in NTFS type file system.
Type DISKPART in windows help file
also Disk manager.
click the desktop, hit Fn1 key.
Vista:
http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/02/19/how-to-partition-in-windows-vista-extend-and-shrink/
This is another point of view that is very interesting, where you would make C drive 10 gig (XP) or 15 gig(Vista) , make D drive for your programs (same size) then the rest as H or F drive for your files.
http://www.malwarebytes.org
Update a run a full scan,preferably in safe mode.It’s free by the way.