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MSE and the Windows 7 Security Virus-Please Help!
About an hour ago a notification popped up from 'Windows 7 Security 2012' which is a virus one of my friends had on their computers recently. Immediately I closed it and opened Microsoft Security Essentials and ran a quick scan. It said it detected a file 'Rogue:Win32/FakeRean'. Instead of removing it, it quarantined it, I'm not an admin on my pc so I wasnt able to tell the program to delete it, but the second it did so all the popups stopped. Then, I rebooted my pc to make sure the virus wouldn't pop up on startup, which according to websites I looked up on my mobile is what it does. When I logged in, the virus didn't pop up and there's no sign of it, but MSE is unable to run real-time protection (error code 0x800705b4) I restarted again, but it is still unable to perform real time protection. I can still run a scan. Do I still have the virus, or do I just need to reinstall MSE? No symptoms of the virus have shown since MSE detected and quarantined it.
EDIT: Before restaring my pc I ran an update on MSE, just to be safe. Could it possibly be the problem? Because there's no trace at all of the virus, there was even a process running on my pc I had never seen before the file was quarantined. Just ran a quick scan and it says I'm clean, I'll run a full scan now.
Last edited by personrawr; 23 Jul 2011 at 01:02. Reason: more information