I (as well as
Microsoft, McAfee and
Symantec) recommend that you
DO NOT have more than one antivirus product installed and running on your computer at a time.
The real-time protection of two antivirus programs may conflict with each other and cause the following:
1)
False Alarms: When the anti virus software tells you that your PC has a virus when it actually doesn't.
2)
Conflicts: Your system may lock up due to both products attempting to access the same file at the same time.
3)
Performance: More that one antivirus will cause your PC to become slow and it may even crash or blue screen.
I strongly suggest you either configure only one antivirus program to enable automatic real-time scanning, and leave the rest disabled, using them for on-demand scanners or go to
Start >
Control Panel >
Add or Remove Programs and uninstall all but one antivirus program.
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Open HijackThis and select
Do a system scan only.
Place a check mark next to the following entries: (if there)
- F3 - REG:win.ini: run=""
- O3 - Toolbar: (no name) - {4982D40A-C53B-4615-B15B-B5B5E98D167C} - (no file)
- O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IUpd655] C:\WINDOWS\system32\mscdexntp.exe_.exe
- O18 - Filter hijack: text/html - {865c4b06-774c-4991-947c-7fd31a5e2c57} - (no file)Important: Close all windows except for HijackThis and then click
Fix checked.
Exit HijackThis
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Download
OTMoveIt2 by OldTimer.
Note: If you are running on Vista, right-click on OTMoveIt2.exe and choose
Run As Administrator.
- Double-click OTMoveIt2.exe to run it.
- Copy the lines in the codebox below.
[kill explorer]
C:\WINDOWS\system32\mscdexntp.exe_.exe
EmptyTemp
[start explorer]- Return to OTMoveIt2, right click in the Paste List of Files/Folders to Move window (under the yellow bar) and choose Paste
- Click the red Moveit! button.
- Copy everything in the Results window (under the green bar) and paste it in your next reply.
- Close OTMoveIt2
.
Note:
If a file or folder cannot be moved immediately you may be asked to reboot your computer in order to finish the move process. If asked to reboot, choose Yes. If not, reboot anyway.
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How is everything now?