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by daz'n'ash

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I have just finished a system scan with McAfee anti virus and it detected 4 infected files in the Restore folder. The location is C:\_RESTORE\TEMP
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Virus Name IRC/Flood.i
MS DOS name: A00274233 .cpy
A0027437.cpy
A0027473.cpy
A0027478.cpy

My questioin is .... is it safe to manually delete these files as the anti virus did not delete them. It gave the message that the files cannot be cleaned and shuld be deleted, but after scanning a second time, all 4 files are still showing asinfected. If it comes to the point where a format is required, will that totally remove the virus?
I am running Windows Millennium Edition, MS Office XP .... anything else you need to know? Juast ask.

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by dmiles

The configuration may be set to prompt before deleting files and this was done by the Anti-Virus,the files are safe to delete,the files most like have migrated to anoter seciton of the drive after reboot

Doing a complete reformat of the drive will wipe all data from the drive including the infected files,one suggestion would be to create a new startup disk and write protect the disk by sliding the lock over opening

Scan the disk with anti-virus and then proceed to reformat,at dos prompt run the anti-virus using ERD.

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