Re: mcaree32 virus

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These are all well and good, but like I said, I did a search of the c:\
drive, examined msconfig, and did a find using regedit and none of them
found mcafee. Is it possible that it is called from another program and the
name is buried in code?

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard,

More startup locations: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/startup.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Poor Richard" <richard.stout@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Norton Anti Virus found mcafee32.exe virus. At first I thought it was a
> system file, but after a post to this bb, I learned otherwise. I deleted
> mcfaee32.exe. Now when I boot, I get the message that it cannot find the
> file. I did a search of the c drive for mcafee, I did a search using
> regedit of the registry, I examined the startup tab of msconfig and cannot
> find anything that matches mcafee, but I still get the error on boot.
> What
> else can I do? I am running xp home.
>
>
>


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