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Hi Satchfan, It worked this time. After scanning it said 0 infections found. Thank you very much for your help.

Hi Gator 201170

Your computer appears to be clean.

Now that you’re free from malware, as long as your computer seems to be running well, please follow these simple steps to tidy up you computer and decrease the likelihood of getting infected again:

Uninstall OTL
• Double-click OTL.exe
• Click the CleanUp! button.
• Select Yes when the Begin cleanup Process? prompt appears.
• If you are prompted to reboot during the cleanup, select Yes.
• The tool will delete itself once it finishes, if not delete it by yourself.
NOTE: If you receive a warning from your firewall or other security programs regarding OTL attempting to contact the internet, please allow it to do so.

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Create a Restore Point • click on Start > Control Panel (All Control Panel Items)
• click on System > System Protection
• check that you have System Protection turned on for the drive that you want to create a restore point for, (usually C:
• click Create
• type in a description for the restore point to help recognize it when doing a System Restore, and click on the Create button.

Remove old restore points• open Disk Cleanup by clicking Start. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.
• if prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
• in the Disk Cleanup for (drive letter) dialog box, click Clean up system files. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation
• if prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK
• click the More Options tab, then under System Restore and Shadow Copies, click Clean up
• in the Disk Cleanup dialog box, click Delete
• click Delete Files, and then click OK.
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Recommended programs

SpywareBlaster. SpywareBlaster protects against bad ActiveX, it immunizes your PC against them. It blocks over 11,000 bad sites and uses no resources of your computer.

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Update and run Malwarebytes. This really is an excellent program that you should update and run on a regular basis, probably weekly.

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It’s important to keep programs up to date so that malware doesn't exploit any old security flaws.

FileHippo Update Checker is an extremely helpful program that will tell you which of your programs need to be updated.

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MVPS Hosts file replaces your current HOSTS file with one containing well known ad sites and other bad sites. Basically, this prevents your computer from connecting to those sites by redirecting them to 127.0.0.1 which is your local computer, meaning it will be difficult to infect yourself in the future.

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I also recommend that you read the following:

How to prevent malware by miekiemoes

Safe computing

Satchfan

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