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  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,612 Forumite
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    download this

    smitRem Download Link

    Download smitRem.exe, saving the file to your desktop. Double click it to extract the contents to a folder of it's own. Restart your computer in safe mode, logon to the user account that is infected, open the smitRem folder and double click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool. Follow the prompts on screen and allow disk cleanup to complete. Upon reboot, you can reset your desktop background. Note: XP users using the XP theme may ex-perience a change to the Classic Windows theme. This can be changed on the themes tab of desktop properties
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  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,612 Forumite
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    then a fresh hijackthis log please
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