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Mad Scientist · 10-17-2008, 12:02 AM

Recently, my computer was infected with a virus that disables my Windows Automatic Updates. I have Symantec Anti virus which does find this virus which turns out to be a device driver of some sort. Symantec requires a reboot after "deleting" the file however upon reboot and once windows starts, the virus remains and Symantec's automatic alert tells me of the problem. It seems that the virus never goes away. I still can't turn on automatic updates no matter what I do. I've tried going into Start/Run/regsvr32 to fix the problem but even then I cannot enable automatic updates. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

10-17-2008, 12:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mad Scientist Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP 32	Virus disables Automatic Updates Recently, my computer was infected with a virus that disables my Windows Automatic Updates. I have Symantec Anti virus which does find this virus which turns out to be a device driver of some sort. Symantec requires a reboot after "deleting" the file however upon reboot and once windows starts, the virus remains and Symantec's automatic alert tells me of the problem. It seems that the virus never goes away. I still can't turn on automatic updates no matter what I do. I've tried going into Start/Run/regsvr32 to fix the problem but even then I cannot enable automatic updates. Any suggestions would be appreciated.