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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4437644" data-attributes="member: 35909">I had a Mcaffee antivirus from my college, which I recently graduated from, but it probably wouldn't work, I haven't updated it in a few months, and if I still can get updates, I'd have to do it through the campus network (still possible, I work there).  I don't know what it did or how it did so so fast, but I don't think any program's going to work.  I had Adaware, that found 24 files, but didn't help.  I downloaded Spybot, but couldn't install the .exe file, and I saw some people saying the best program to use was malwarebyte's anti-malware program.  Which I found a link to on this site <a href="http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/remove-xp-antivirus-2008-2009" target="_blank">http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/remove-xp-antivirus-2008-2009</a>Of course, I found it on a different computer, as mine won't let me access most pages with helpful info.  I need to try and get it to my computer by flash drive, I guess.  I'm just worried if I could ruin my flash drive too, and for no gain.  When I try to instal things now, it says files are corrupted, and won't let me.  I'm not sure if trying to do it from a USB port would matter or not.And yes, Thanee, I've been to that site.  Interestingly, I can't follow links to it from my computer, but manually typing in the address worked.  Some of the pages that link off of that (like the "how do I do this?" ones) work, but the text is spread out of place overlapping with things.Aus, please tell me anything to manually remove them.  I found this site <a href="http://wehackvirus.blogspot.com/2008/07/remove-antivirus-xp-2008.html" target="_blank">http://wehackvirus.blogspot.com/2008/07/remove-antivirus-xp-2008.html</a> and tried to follow the directions, but could only find one of those 12 character file names, and got as far as deleting everyhing in my recycle been, only to get stuck on the step of going into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE because i only had the one file name, and there was nothing suspicious looking under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (step #8)My friend works on tech support for the local cable company, so he's going to look at it late tonight when he's out of work.  I really hope I don't need to wipe my whole hard drive, like a rep from said cable company told me on the phone.  it really sucks -- my computer's 5 years old, I had been starting  to look into getting a new one, and now this happens.  I'd really like to not lose 5 years of stuff.</blockquote>

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