Here's what I would do:
Download crap cleaner (free) from ccleaner.com
Run the ccleaner registry cleaner over and over until it quits finding stuff
check the list of what ccleaner tells you is set to start up (startup tab) - google stuff you don't recognize. You might find the virus name there. Turn off all startups you don't need, like auto updaters and stuff like that. Write down any virus name you find and make sure that that "program" is set to NOT start up (you'll see how to do that in ccleaner).
Uninstall AVG
Now restart the computer
If you had found a virus listed in the startup list, search for it now and change its name from whatever is is .com or .exe to .VIRUS and it won't be able to run again. However, if it turns out not to be a virus, you can always change the name back.
Install an antivirus (AVG, Avira, whatever) and run it.
Restart and run ccleaner again.
That should take care of most virus problems. Some of them are persistent and can reinvent themselves when you start up the computer even when you've told them not to start. Sometimes you have to turn the virus's startup setting off in ccleaner and then restart into safe mode to be able to change the name to .VIRUS
Jim
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Nate <vwnate1@...> wrote:
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> Hi all ;
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> I have this laptop running VISTA and one of the Foster boys was running it sans protection , I've run all the things from the Microsoft site and it says it's now clean _but_ I cannot get it to load up AGV .
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> So ~ I'd like to pay someone here to give it a go , I have deleted all the old pictures and MP3 files I'm sure were just jam - packed with bugs , defragged it , up dated everything but I'm not a computer tech , I'm an old car Mechanic so any help I can get.....
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> I'll schlepp it to you .
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> TIA ,
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> -Nate
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