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    Question What to do with Manual Scan Results?

    Hello,

    I recently joined my old Windows for Workgroups 3.11 PC to my home network. Out of curiosity, I ran a manual Spybot scan on the old PC off my Windows 98 machine, via the context menu that pops up when you right-click on a drive in Windows Explorer. (Yes, I do have a lot of old hardware!)

    The scan took a while to finish, but it finally did and four entries came up showing the following information:

    Filename
    FLAG.GLB SpywareDetector Spybot - Search & Destroy (Heuristic)
    00000000.GRP WebWatcher Spybot - Search & Destroy (Heuristic)
    ADMIN.GRP WebWatcher Spybot - Search & Destroy (Heuristic)
    ADMINSHD.GRP WebWatcher Spybot - Search & Destroy (Heuristic)

    Each of these had a little icon at left that showed half of a red circle with an "X" inside, then one quarter in red and white stripes, and one quarter clear.

    At the bottom of the Scanner box, it now says, "Scan finished."

    A few questions:

    1) Does "Scan finished" mean that it found AND removed the suspicious items, or only that it found but did not remove them?

    2) Are the items in question now removed? If not, how do I remove them?

    3) What does the red half-circle with the one-quarter stripes mean?

    Bottom line: What (if anything) do I now need to do to end up with a clean, uninfected machine?

    Thanks very much.

    --JorgeA
    Last edited by JorgeA; 2010-07-13 at 19:11.

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