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Why won't this "Your Computer Is Infected" warning go away?

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If all of you haven't run into combofix, available at bleepingcomputer.com, it is a very good program for dealing with this particular virus. It is especially useful when you have problems getting anything at all to run. It can be run in safe mode.

Posted by: Jonathan Miran at January 20, 2009 4:05 PM

Malwarebytes worked to get rid of "MS Anti-Virus" on my son's computer. AVG had detected it but was unable to clean all the files. I ran Malwarebytes twice (with a disabled internet connection) and it caught everything lurking in the system files. Very effective.

Posted by: Guin at February 4, 2009 8:32 AM

Okay I have the exact Warning background and pop up you pictured in this article. Been this way for months as nothing seems to get rid of it. I have tried several times to download malwarebytes as suggested to get rid of it but everytime it errors with a bunch of of error and invalid point windows itself then just diappears without working. What can I do?

Ultimately you may be faced with a complete reinstall of windows and all applications. Another alternative is to take the hard drive to another machine that's not infected and run malwarebytes on it there.
- Leo
11-Jun-2009

Posted by: Rhiannon at June 10, 2009 9:28 AM
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