My brother got a virus through msn on his computer and its proving hard to shift. It causes the computer to freeze when you try to run a program (eg internet explorer). I ran AVG in normal mode and it found 1 virus which I removed but the problem was still there. I booted it up in safe mode and ran the scan again, this time it found 3 viruses which I removed. The problem is still there. Not really sure what else to try? AVG is usually pretty good at finding viruses but it seems to be having problems with this one. Any ideas?
If AVG isn't catching it, you might want to try downloading Avast! it's a free program, from my experience with it, it works well. Once it's installed it will ask you if you want to run a boot scan the next time you restart, which will scan the computer during the boot process and catches viruses that hide out in the system files and regisitry before they can load in the system. Avast! also will protect e-mail and messengers...Hope this helps