-- Posted by Mouseydolphin at 12:37 am on July 21, 2004 Today I scanend my other computer with AVG, I left it for a while and came back about 30 mins later. It had found 896 viruses and had only scanend 408mb of the 19 gb hard drive! Since it was taking so long to scan I stopped it because my bro would need the computer. It tried to remove the viruses but it said it couldn't remove them, most of them didn't get removed and I still gotta scan 18gb of the hard drive! Why is it taking so long to scan? And how can I remove the viruses that AVG can't remove? I think the virus is called Sddrop/Worm rf something like that... Any help would be appreciated... -- Posted by Yellowcard Chicka at 1:37 am on July 21, 2004 if you can add me to MSN if you have it, then i would send you a program called stinger. It's an anti-virus package, it's quick and gets rid and fixes 99% of the problems. -- Posted by Mouseydolphin at 4:12 am on July 21, 2004 yea I have msn, what's ur email addy? -- Posted by Mouseydolphin at 4:44 am on July 21, 2004 I just found out that they r in the system restore folder and thats why i couldn't delete them... how do i delete them? -- Posted by vitamin at 2:02 am on July 22, 2004 you wont delete them out of there! Its usally protected. -- Posted by Mouseydolphin at 2:22 am on July 22, 2004 Then what the hell am I meant to do? I gotta get rid of them, I read somewhere if you turn off Sytem Restore you can delete them but I wasn't willing to try it because I might screw some stuff up (like usual) -- Posted by vitamin at 4:13 pm on July 22, 2004 you will av to turn off system restore anyway. its located by right clicking my computer and going to properties, then uncheck the box on one of the Tab screens. thats for xp mind. not sure where it is for ME havent used me in years! -- Posted by BBallAsh23 at 6:24 pm on July 22, 2004 yeah i get that alot... except i get damn alerts popping up... stupid avg.  i don't know how to get rid of mine either. -- Posted by Mouseydolphin at 11:41 pm on July 23, 2004 I have to get rid of these viruses soon, AVG always scans the restore folder first but since it finds soo many viruses it freezes up and I can't scan anymore. Is there anyway to skip scanning the system restore folder so I can just scan the rest of the computer? -- Posted by BBallAsh23 at 9:58 am on July 24, 2004 i think you can set it to scan a certain part... ah try tests, and then pick custom tests... -- Posted by xa04 at 3:48 pm on Aug. 11, 2004 hehe! easy one :). just boot your system into safe mode, do a virus scan that way, but you will need a virus scanner that will run in safe mode. or boot up into safe mode with networking (only in windows xp). and connect to the net, do an online scan @ http://housecall.trendmicro.com and remove all the viruses trojans what ever..., hopefully your using a router which will help protect you from hackers since you won't have a firewall up in safe mode...