Right well im pretty sure youve all heard of antivirus xp, ive had the 2009 version before and i removed it pretty quickly, and now, for some strange reason it has returned! but as the "2010" version.

I looked around, found about a million guides all saying the same thing about deleting registry entries and files, so i go to do all this and.. hold on a minute, where are they? There is nothing to do with antivirus xp 2010 on my pc but it still pops up every 5 seconds and even if i kill the processes, it will still pop up!

Ive tried to install malwarebytes but to no avail as everytime i try to run the exe, "antivirus xp 2010" blocks it.

I am completely out of ideas, and this thing is really starting to p*ss me off... ANY help will be appreciated

regards

reboot into safe mode. then do 'start'>'run'>and type 'msconfig' then enter ...and use msconfig to disable all startup items. Once that's done, reboot into normal windows and run your favorite anti-malware software. When the malware is removed re enable the startup items using the procedure above. no need to go into safe mode.. Yes, it's a pain but you'll be free of it in an hour

This post has been edited by Tropic_Cat: Jan 28 2010, 03:39 PM

Ok done all that, now everything is even more screwed up, even though the anti virus has gone, for some stupid reason everytime i run an .exe it has to ask me what type of program i should use to run it which is really stupid cos its an executable

Also only 1 program in my task bar is running at any time, ive checked in msconfig after about half an hour of trying to find how to open it, and all the startup items are checked

Ahhhh its ok guys, ive found something that fixes this...


I must reccomend this website, looking around on it, it has so many fixes...
Doug Knox

Thanks for your help!