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Yup - big family and I tend to hang on to old machines - like running an old car, I guess. Thanks for the pointers; I knew I wold have to get down and dirty ...

No - of course not both on the same machine - I have - my gosh - 7 machines now running vrious OSes adn AVs and now at last Mbam too; so i will probably hae to look at the forums on how these things interact and freeze each other out

Macafee and symantic -- why do they not see this XP security virus. It is as bad as anything I have seen!

Worry not - I already removed it from another machine on the network - running win 7 so I know how to instal and use Mbam; but the procedures I used on it din't work on the XP machine and so I had to resort to Safe Mode and that rasied this problem which you have resolved - and so i now hope it will work tomorrow.

Yes - i am very impressed with Mbam - it found this nasty xp security virus when both Macafee and symantic blithely ignored it. I'm gonna buy it just to say thanks! and sorry for messing up the thread by not using addreply!

Tanks for the comment - but I must be doing something wrong when I boot safe mode with networking it doesn't find its way out and I am loathe to leaave it connected to the network for too long so I didn't explore why it didn't connect to my wireless network ... anyway I am too much of a newbie using safe mode to understand why at this point ..

Super - Just what I wnated to knw: ISSUE: I need to get the latest database onto a computer that cannot access the Internet. SOLUTION: You can manually copy the database from a working computer using a flash drive or CD onto the infected PC. Our database file is stored in the following locations. ◦Windows XP and 2000 ◦C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\rules.ref

Yes i have other machines, bt htis one is quarantined because I am concerned it will infect the others over the wireless net. Obviously there is a hole soewhere to le the XP security virus in ... I'll check out your URL Thanks!

My free copy of Mbam found 6 infections of the security virus and removed them but it is still there popping up its infction notices. I removed them in safe mode because mbam wouldn't run in regular mode because teh virus was preventing all .exe and .com files; so FixExe.reg wouldn't load. Undere safe mode Mbam ran nicely nd found the virus, but because there is no network connection, Mbam could not update. I figure that is the problem, but of course somethng else may be. Anyway I cold only load the Dec.20, 2009 version of Mbam. If i buy the supported version, does it come as a more recent version? is there someay to update the freeware version and move it from an uninfected machine to the infrected machine so that I could run it in safe mode?