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by sweetviolets

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I have a file on my computer that says systern.exe (not system.exe). I have been searching for a virus that has infected my computer and this file was unfamiliar. Have done IE searches, and a few websites i go to for help and cannot find any info in it. It is in my startup and is a hidden file in my program files

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by dmiles7

If the file has attached it self and migrated then is has changed its name to this file,use the Find.Files and Folders type this file name in the box and then scan your drives,when found,quarentine the file with anti-virus software and delete

Youmay have give it time to migrate in that case you may want to reformat the hard drive.

See Symantec or McAfee web site for virus info.

by an_it_guy

Appears to be a virus file, you can try renaming the file. Find for 'systern' in your registry, it might be seen in one of the 'RUN' folders. Check its validity else delete it.
Let us know wht happens. The reason for not deleting and just renaming it, is that if it turns to be some imp file, it might be difficult to recover.
Best of luck.

by sweetviolets

Before I read this I decided to go in and delete the file through Dos. I rebooted and the file was no longer on my startup menu. I then attempted to reload my Norton Systemworks and lo and behold it installed no problem. Did my Live updates and scanned for viruses and it found none. But a check of my emails found one that was returned to me by AOL (sent to someone I did not know)and Norton said it was the SoBig virus. At least I had a name to it. Why my Norton did not catch it the first time I do not know as I am diligent to be sure my virus definitions are up to date. I also ran the fixes for SoBig and they could not detect a virus. My thanks to all!

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