You probably caught a bug.
Windows Live Safety or whatever they are calling themselves these days
has one of the lowest virus catch rates in the industry. Additionally,
you should never rely on an online virus scanner for protection; you
need to have fully-featured av application(s) installed.
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Real-time Anti-Virus Scanning Engines.
Select one (1) only!
AntiVir - FREE
www.free-av.com
http://www.majorgeeks.com/AntiVir_Personal_Edition_7_for_Win9xME_d4472.html
Please note: In March 2006, David H. Lipman ran an impromptu test of AntiVir
Free-av placing 27 known infected EXE only files
in a folder and had AntiVir Free-av scan the files.
The free anti-virus program detected 26 out of the 27 infectants.....
avast - FREE
http://www.avast.com/
AVG Anti-Virus System - FREE
http://free.grisoft.com/
Or
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/
Free trial version for one full year
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Do not run more than one real-time anti-virus scanning engine!
Ensure that the automatic update facility is engaged only for the real-time
scanning engine. Also, disable the e-mail scanning function as it is not
required.
It provides no additional protection.
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On-Demand Anti-Virus Scanning Engines (non-viral malware...)
Select all!
Bit Defender - FREE
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html
(you may wish to disable the automatic update capability as it can interfere
with your browsing)
Ewido Anti-Malware 3.5 - FREE
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
a-squared - FREE
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
Ad-Aware - FREE
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
http://www.lavasoft.de/ms/index.htm
Spybot S&D - FREE
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
http://www.safer-networking.org/microsoft.en.html
SUPERAntispyware - FREE
http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html
Be sure to keep the on-demand (manually) updated on a daily basis) and
perform a full
scan weekly with alternate scanning engines.
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There isn't one software that cleans and immunizes you against everything.
That's why you need multiple products to do the job i.e. overlap their
coverage.
Because one may catch what another may miss.
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For a more 'challenging' infection (viral malware...)
Download Art's KAVDOS.EXE - FREE (Abandon/CareWare)
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg/
and/or
David's MULTI_AV - FREE (Donation/Charity/CareWare)
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm or
MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
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Learn how to practice safe hex
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html
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Install a good dependable software firewall
ZoneAlarm - FREE
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
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Prior downloading av application(s) and scanning, clean out the clutter.
CrapCleaner - FREE
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Instructions for using CCleaner:
Before first use, check under Options, Advanced, and UNCHECK "Only delete
files in Windows Temp folder older than 48 hours".
Under 'Options' you can manage your Cookies by either deleting and/or
keeping them.
A pop up box will appear advising this process will permanently delete files
from your system.
Then click the "Run Cleaner" button and it will scan and clean your system.
Click exit.
Alternatively,
click onto Start==>Run, type "cleanmgr" (without quotation marks), click OK
Good luck.
Am relative newbee to computing, ran live scan, At start of scan
