I ran a scan today and had about 15 items items labeled EMBEDDED come up and received a message when I said to move them to the chest that said an error occurred during moving file to chest and when I tried to do it again the message said the disk was full. What is going on? ???
RECYCLER is the Recycle Bin. Right click on Recycle Bin and click on Empty Recycle Bin to permanently delete the infected files before a scan.
EMBEDDED suggests the files are part of an archive: a large zip file for example, although we would need to see the file name of the detected files to confirm this.
If you have a detection in a zip file, you need to delete the whole zip file, or unpack the zip file and delete individual infected files.
RECYCLER suggests you had already deleted the file, so there won’t be any problem after emptying the Recycle Bin.
Thanks for your prior help. I went ahead and emptied my recycle bin and now I am down to 8 problems.
The following is showing up on my scan results screen:
C:.…[Embedded#MWSBAR.DLL] Infection: Win 32:A
C:.…[Embedded#M3PLUGIN.DLL] ‘’ ‘’
This same message is duplicated 4 times.
When I try to move them to the chest by right clicking on them on the scan results screen they change to the following:
C:\Systemvolumninformation#MWSBAR.DLL
or
C:\SystemVdded#MWSBAR.DLL
On the Results Processing screen I get the following message:
An error has occurred during the processing of 1 result.
Please give detailed instructions if you have any suggestions as to what I am supposed to do with this because I am not very computer savvy.
Thanks so much for your help
Candylover, if a virus is replicant (coming and coming again), you should:
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Disable System Restore on Windows ME or Windows XP. System Restore cannot be disabled on Windows 9x and it’s not available in Windows 2k. After boot you can enable System Restore again after step 3).
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Clean your temporary files. You can use CleanUp or the Windows Advanced Care features for that.
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Schedule a boot time scanning with avast. Start avast! > Right click the skin > Schedule a boot-time scanning. Select for scanning archives. Boot. Other option is scanning in SafeMode (repeatedly press F8 while booting).
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It will be good if you download, install, update and run AVG Antispyware. Some users recommend SUPERantispyware, Spyware Terminator and/or a-squared (take care about false positives).
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Use the immunization of SpywareBlaster or, which is better, the Windows Advanced Care features of spyware/adware cleaning and removal.
Have a look in Start>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs for the following and remove if found:
FunWeb
MyWebSearch
Also have a look for any programs you do not recognise and check on Google. If you find a report that the program is adware/spyware, remove it.
Then follow Tech’s advice.
These are my recommended scanners for step 4:
AVG Anti-Spyware (Requires Win2k/XP)