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You have been given the best answer by the resident virus expert, crunchie. You can be sure that what he has told you is 100% correct and you do not need anyone else to confirm what he has told you. "No anti-virus program will attack legitimate software"

OP, hasn't been back in 3 days ,the odds are high that they will never return!!lol

• • • • Installation of XP Pro begins but at first reboot the installation process starts all over again rather than picking up from where it left off. I now recall having a similar instance of this. Try this; At the first reboot as the screen goes blank, remove the CD from the DVD drive and let it continue to reboot, it should pick up where it left off and at some point will ask you to insert the CD to...

Mmm. Well, mine were all okay. Came with a pretty decent spec and a samsung SATA II drive, internal layout was good (even if annoying because the case/motherboard combo was nonstandard). Only PCs ive ever had problems with are Acer and Packard Bell.

It has actually been postulated that (some) AV companies create viri in order to sell their product. It's a crock that the AV programs attack legitimate software though.

hi thanks How do I purge my PCs cache? apologies for putting this in the wrong section previously hetixo

Caperjack - I think it doesn't really matter if they don't respond. We might get some new solutions about this type of problem. Maybe someone looking for a solution might come across this thread.

I'd have to replace my motherboard for that jbennet. I like AMD. Core2's are nowhere close to $76 like the athlon is. The Phenom II X2 is $102. The lowest Core2 Duo is $120 plus the mobo I'd have to buy. Yeah the athlon doesn't have L3 cache at all.

Do you have the XP installation disk ?

I read your answer thank u mr !!! boB please get asside & goodby !! spare your valuable !! time !! by keeping your nose out of this affair .