Virus not picked up by anti virus


  1. Posts : 445
    Windows 7 64 (bit)
       #1

    Virus not picked up by anti virus


    I have Bitdefender it did not pick up the virus .scr i think thats what it was

    So what i have done is deleted everything on the hard drive and formatted it

    then put fresh wins 7 ultimate on there would that resolve the problem with that virus
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  2. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #2

    OK, that will work. But, how did you know you had a virus in the first place.............?
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  3. Posts : 445
    Windows 7 64 (bit)
    Thread Starter
       #3

    i had a diff prog that picked it up as malware in system.32 and the prog would not get rid of it and then it spread to the system
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  4. Posts : 445
    Windows 7 64 (bit)
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Hope that has helped explain dont know how it got there tho as im careful in what i download every single time
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  5. Posts : 8,608
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
       #5

    Please see here what a .scr file is: What Is an SCR File? | eHow.com
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  6. Posts : 537
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #6

    Deleting an reformatting might have been overkill.
    Next time try Malwarebytes before doing anything so drastic. It can get rid of those really difficult ones.
    Hope this helps.
    Cheers,

    J
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