Nearly everytime I try to start my internet explorer I get a screen come up that 
is not my home page and AVG picks up a virus called swizzor.2.AQ. The page I get 
is,C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\EachCoalCdrom.htm#http://www.google.com/ My default home page 
is google.com. Could this be the problem??? I have downloaded adaware-spyware blaster-spybot 
search and destroy and I have zone alarm pro running as well.(no I am not paranoid)lol.Just 
careful.Is there a way of stopping this page from hi-jacking??? Thanks.
May the force be with you

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Just downloading all those programs does not classify you as paranoid, unless you were too afraid to update them on line and run full scans with them and then remove everything they find.

You also need to boot your system into SAFE MODE and first run the System Tools program Disk CleanUp. Then go to the C:\Windows\TEMP folder and delete all files and folders in it. That is where a lot of stuff likes to hide. Then while in Safe Mode, run a full manual scan with AVG (I know it takes too long) and see what it finds. Also do an on line virus scan like HouseCall_AV.

Have you tried going to the AVG web site support section and looking up the program it is flagging and following their manual removal procedures?

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is system restore enabled, viruses and such can live there.

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System restore was disabled quite a while ago!

May the force be with you


On Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 7:28 am, brian wrote:
>is system restore enabled, viruses and such can live there.

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