PCbanter - View Single Post - malware issue

**Paul** · March 5th 14, 04:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

wrote:
Hello Paul,

I forgot to mention I also have Windows
Defender installed on the 8500 which must
have been installed originally or came
with something I installed. From time to
time it request to do a full system scan.
So I let it.

So I'm ok now? Mr. C mentioned manually
deleting the remaining programs. How am
I to tell which ones to delete?

I'll go through the process on the 8200
and if I run into problems post it to the
other forum.

Thanks
Robert

For portable programs, you probably downloaded them somewhere,
or put them on your desktop. You don't have to delete
them, except you would want them gone, if having to do
the procedures again (as you'd want up-to-date copies).
If it was me, I'd want a bookmark for each tool's download
page, so I could find it again later.

For programs that actually install (and reside in Program Files,
have an entry in Programs and Features control panel), you
could uninstall those if you're done with them.

If I was sitting at the keyboard of your machine, I would
probably use the file search to look for remnants. If I can see
things in Program Files, then I'd know it was an actual install.
If the program or folders are located somewhere else (like right
under C:\), then it might be harder to locate all of them. Programs
like that have at least a half dozen places they could hang out, so
it's not that easy to be thorough.

The Combofix should have removed its quarantine folder, so
that is one less thing right under C:.

Paul