# Tagged virus
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Posts tagged virus, newest first.

- [Fystemroot – Fix BITS for Windows Update after Virus Removal on Windows XP](/technology/repair/fystemroot-fix-bits-for-windows-update-after-virus-removal-on-windows-xp.txt) (2010-08-29) - Biggest pain in the @$$ issue I have seen so far on Windows XP. You remove tons of viruses, get everything working, and then all the sudden Windows Update doesn’t work anymore, gives a dumb error. [Error number: 0x8024D007] The first issue is that windows wont update. The second is that you start getting locked out of all kinds of things due to system administrative policy issues. So I decide to download Microsoft’s Fix it tool for Windows Update Issues to have it fix it for me. NO SUPRISE IT DIDN’T WORK, well sort of. It couldn’t initialize BITS, and…
- [MSConfig: Remove Disabled / Unchecked Program Items Manually](/technology/msconfig-remove-disabled-unchecked-program-items-manually.txt) (2010-07-25) - It took a while to find this one. After accidentally installing a virus and cleaning it manually, I wanted to clean up the registry entries in MSConfig to not show the now defunct startup .dll’s and .exe’s The way to do this is quite simple actually. There are 3 locations in your registry where the information is held. The first two are: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run When you click on the folders you will find the names of the programs. Delete them and they are gone from MSConfig (Note: This does not actually delete the file). Make sure you browse too and…

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