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[boweasel]

Friend is running XP Home SP3, and it's really slowwww, and he's got a couple of inappropriate items that show up in his task manager and startup. (a.exe, b.exe to name 2).

His AVG scan revealed nothing so I downloaded Malwarebytes onto his PC.

It began running after the setup was complete, but stopped (and disappeared) after a few seconds. When I click on the icon I get the message "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions....."

I am logged on as an administrator, and I did all the 'safe mode', properties, security stuff, but to no avail.

Any ideas?

[mountaintree16]

@ boweasel

Please read the following entirely, paying special attention to the note at the bottom in green.

good luck!

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