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All viruses need to be run on boot up. That's one way I find viruses that my scanner can't. Run 'msconfig' from the 'run' selection in windows, and look at 'start up'. If you see anything in there that you dont know what it is - then find out! If you can't find out, then remove it. If you dont try to find out and remove it anyway, then you may remove something that your computer needs. Another way to find out what programs are currently running is with drwatson - run it from the same run menu, and look at the section where it shows all programs running (it shows a lot more than hitting ctrl-alt-del does - at least for pre-win XP machines). I found a program called load.exe running once (mcafee actually infected me with this virus with their own update program, and their software couldn't detect it [obviously]), and i found out that it was being loaded from the system.ini file under shell=explorer.exe line - so that's another place where a program can tell itself to load.
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