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Sophos Anti-Virus: Removing Viruses on the Local Computer

Overview The instructions provided in this paper shows one how to use Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows to remove viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware and similar programs on the local computer. If the virus has just arrived in an email, or has been dropped by another computer, it may not have infected the computer. Delete the file or email, either manually or with Sophos Anti-Virus. Then run a scan to check that there are no further virus files.

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Publisher	Sophos	File Format	HTML
Date Published	February 2006	Downloads	44
Format	White Papers
Topics	Spyware, Anti-Virus, Network Security

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