Viruses in Windows "Recycler" folder.

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Guest

AVG antivirus revealed viruses in the "Recycler" folder, on the "C" drive,
but it is undabe to remove them. I am also unable to remove them manually,
even from the Recovery Console". Also odd, some of the infected files fail to
show up in Windows Explorer, even though I have checked all the boxes under
Tools/Options to show all Hidden and System Files.

Any thought would be appreciated.

Ted
 
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David H. Lipman

From: "Preacher Ted" <[email protected]>

| AVG antivirus revealed viruses in the "Recycler" folder, on the "C" drive,
| but it is undabe to remove them. I am also unable to remove them manually,
| even from the Recovery Console". Also odd, some of the infected files fail to
| show up in Windows Explorer, even though I have checked all the boxes under
| Tools/Options to show all Hidden and System Files.
|
| Any thought would be appreciated.
|
| Ted

Use the McAfee module in the below Multi AV Scanning Tool.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *
 
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Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers

Hi Ted,

Log into each account in turn and empty the Recycle Bin.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 

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