[jim macomber]

I may not be out of the woods yet. Ran a scan this AM and Malwarebytes showed a different virus - TrojanFakeMS. Malwarebytes said it removed but when I rebooted it was still there. I noted the location of the file: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\34\5807ede2-62d57432.

Ran full Malwarebytes scan again and this time it says no detection. But if I go into Windows Explorer and look, this file is still in the same place. It says file size is 1kb. Does that seem right? Can I just manually delete this file? Just hit delete in Windows Explorer?

What happens if I uninstall JAVA entirely? I did note that, as the scan was running, the Java shield was flashing asking for permission to update. Might Java updating clear out the bad file?

Also, I backed-up the registry and started to look and realized I didn't know where to look. A ton of files seem to have three-letter names.

[Mr. K]

this is a nasty one to get rid of

google “windows 7 security virus” and there are a ton of pages with detailed instruction

http://www.google.fr/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=fr&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS435&biw=1019&bih=581&source=hp&q=windows+7+security+virus+2012+removal&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS435&pbx=1&oq=windows+7+security+vi&aq=3L&aqi=g-L4&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=187l2547l0l6890l4l3l0l0l0l1l594l1218l2-1.1.0.1l3l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=bc9d1bf94ce4d000