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Antivirus Live spyware is a “profile specific” program that only affects the logged on user. A “profile” is what is created when you log on to a Windows XP workstation with your user id and password. All of your computer desktop and application settings are stored in that profile which is located in c:\documents and settings\username.
Antivirus Live does NOT infect the entire machine. To cure this problem all you have to do is save your MS Office data to a backup folder on your hard drive and then delete the profile that is infected. You also need to turn off System Restore so that your machine is not re infected when the new profile is created. Turning off System Restore DELETES all system restore points and therefore gets rid of any infected files that might be in there.
Antivirus Live is transmitted via a website AD that you might click on. The AD contains a picture file that gets infected and then gets uploaded to the web site web server. At this time there is no known way to detect that an AD on a website is infected. All we can do is our best to keep our network and machines as clean as possible and do due diligence by doing regular scans and keep the AV and AS definition files up to date.
I am telling you all of this so you will be aware of what is happening and so that you can also be better prepared to protect your home or office computing environment as well.
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