# Anti-virus question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-virus-question/474841>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 28, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-virus-question/474841 "2008-11-28T20:16:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-virus-question/474841/21 "2008-12-02T15:56:17Z")

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You should do the usual sweep of Ad-Aware/Spybot, preferably in safe mode, to get the other crap out of the system. Erase any system restore points and clean out all temp data.

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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-virus-question/474841/22 "2008-12-02T16:47:06Z")

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Well, I am not there anymore, but I’ll tell him about the adware thingy…I can give him the URL for Spybot (I don’t think he’s got that on his system). I had already gone through the start tasks in MSCONFIG as well as doing a registry scan and I THINK I got all the instances of that .dll out of the system. When I left Sunday everything seemed to be back to working fine at least.

Thanks again for all the help and suggestions.

-XT

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-virus-question/474841/23 "2008-12-02T17:28:38Z")

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On a sidenote, of you ever want to check whether a site is down for everyone or just you this place is invaluable.

[Down For Everyone Or Just Me?](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/)

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**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-virus-question/474841/24 "2008-12-02T18:14:30Z")

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> [@aldiboronti](#):
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> On a sidenote, of you ever want to check whether a site is down for everyone or just you this place is invaluable.
> 
> [Down For Everyone Or Just Me?](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/)

Psst! Post 15. 🙂

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