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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

By antony.dalton ·
I have been suffering from a persistent virus report for the past week or so. The same "virus file keeps being found and deleted from the Temp Internet folder. The file is called "Never Buy DVDs Again!"
It always gets trapped by my copy of AVG Free antivirus but always reappears even when I have not been on the Internet and not used removable media. AVG is up to date using their lates Dec 2nd file. The Symantic free online test does not find it and the virus library does not know of the virus. Why does AVG keep on reporting it every day without fail? Is it a problem or just a bug in AVG. Otherwise I am very pleased with the results of AVG and it has killed off bugbear and one or two other viruses sent by a couple of people.

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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

by Dualinlinememorymodule In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

No Problems Download These And It Will Be Long Gone

Removes Via Regedit And RAM Also

www.bigfix.com
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Download Via Download.com
Avast32
And
Ad Aware Ok
Removes Spyware, Threaths, Virus, Worms, Trojans
Everything
Goodluck

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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

by antony.dalton In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

Useful information and I have used Bigfix successfully but not the complete answer.

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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

by opatzg In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

The adaware mentioned above can be found at www.lavasoft.de and yes it does work great and fixes lots of problems caused by spyware.
Good luck, Keep us posted!

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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

by antony.dalton In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

I already used Ad-aware and found it useful so this may be a helpful answer to others who read this query.

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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

by B_Pope In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

As suggested Ad-aware is your best bet to finding the app causing this.

To add, make sure you empty your temperary Internet files, temp folder & delete all cookies, then also check in C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs & look for any program that your not familiar with, you likely installed a program that was bundled with some third party software which is causing your virus alerts.

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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

by antony.dalton In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

Very useful. This solution actually removed the fault permanently.

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Is this really a virus? ("Never Buy DVDs

by cglrcng In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

It is just located in a temp inet file like is mentioned above. START, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Clean Up. Then, Select Drive_C:, OK, Let it run the scan of C:, Make sure "Temporary Internet Files" box is checked, click OK, let it dothe cleaning....the rerun the AVG scan again, problem should be solved.

Good Luck.

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by antony.dalton In reply to Is this really a virus? ( ...

Looks to be very useful. This solution did not actually get used because answer 3 had already done the job.

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