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debug file on my desktop? i may have a virus...please help
i may or may not have a virus on my laptop. i have dell studio 1750 i bought about a year ago, with mcafee antivirus. however, i just looked at my flags and one of them was my mcafee was turned off. wth? i never ever turn it off so i don't know how that happened, or how long it was off.
a while back, maybe a week or two ago, i noted a text looking file on my desktop called "debug". when i clicked on it, it would not open. so i deleted it when i saw it, as long as IE was closed it would delete.
tonight i think i made a big mistake. the icon was there again and this time i "open with" notepad. since that time, it opened up like four or five windows with wierd writing in the notepad. my dell dock disappeared from the top of my desktop. it recreated icons for about 50% of my desktop all looking like one note icons. at least i think they are, since the window says "one note 2007" with the wierd writing on it. plus, when i hit the start button, ALL the icons there are changed to the notepad/onenote icon.
as you can tell i'm no expert, but i have the feeling i may have just put a virus on my computer, although i m not sure. i just ran a macfee scan and found nothing, i ran another scanner and found nothing, and i'm in the process of scanning with the microsoft virus scan and removal tool, and so far nothing.
if anyone can offer some advice to me i would appreciate it.
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