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Does the System Tools virus affect Outlook Express?
drc
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Hello.
I have put my computer on this morning and Outlook Express has removed all of my message rules and the stored messages are all going in to one folder as "new". Is this something that the System Tools virus does? I ran a check on Microsoft Security Essentials yesterday and it did not find any virus. I am using Microsoft Chrome. How can I find out if my computer has been infected (I am running another search now)?
Thanks.
I have put my computer on this morning and Outlook Express has removed all of my message rules and the stored messages are all going in to one folder as "new". Is this something that the System Tools virus does? I ran a check on Microsoft Security Essentials yesterday and it did not find any virus. I am using Microsoft Chrome. How can I find out if my computer has been infected (I am running another search now)?
Thanks.
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Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
Open malwarebytes and goto UPDATE and click 'check for updates'. After its updated goto SCANNER and click PERFORM QUICK SCAN then click SCAN
Remove everything thats found (needs to be ticked)
Post the COMPLETE log here AFTER youve deleted everything it finds
If anything was found then do the exact same but run a FULL scan
reboot
Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
Click MAIN MENU then DO A SYSTEM SCAN AND SAVE A LOGFILE(Takes seconds) then post the log so we can see whats running
(do NOT do anything else with Hijack but scan and post the FULL log)
If you get a message that you cant write to the hosts file then Press the SHIFT key, and whilst holding it RIGHT CLICK and select RUN AS (admin):idea:0
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