This is a quote I copied: Documents and Settings\Patricia\My Documents\Downloads\Quarantine\Infected.FA009905 TS ADInstant.000.000.000 Admore.Timesink.Found/not moved copied since alreay in quarantine.

Please could somebody translate for me. Does this mean this was found in another area and was not moved as it was already quarantined?? I found this virus a few days ago in my e-game file. It was quarantined then. Then I deleted all the related files. Then I was able to go back and delete the quarantined file. So I mistakenly thought that was that. Do I just not understand the nature of these viruses? This one was found in another location; did it move from it's orginal location or am I getting this each time I go online. I don't have answers to this so I would appreciate it if someone who understands what is happening explains it tells me what, if anything I should do? I ran an entire scan of every file and it took almost an hour and ahd a half. I've updated all downloads of Clamwin every day. Now what?

By the way what is a poll question, poll option, run poll for mean?

Unfortunately, ClamWin is re-detecting the file it quarantined already. In the future, I would hope that ClamWin would either exempt this directory from scanning or encrypt the quarantine such that a detection is not re-issued.

If you delete the file from the quarantine, it should no longer be detected. If this identical malware name is detected again there may be a couple reasons for this:

1) There exists on your system a different piece of malware that is not currently detected. If this malware is a "dropper", whose purpose is to download other malware and install it on the infected system, you could see it detected again. (Not impossible, but unlikely...)

2) You are visiting a website that contains malware code on it to utilize a security vulnerablity in your web browser to permit a payload to be deposited on your computer.

3) Malicious code exists on a website that has tricked you into running a malicious browser plug-in which in turn is placing the malware on your system.

To avoid #2 and #3 from happening, check out this link as it contains reasonable advice: https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-a-Computer-Virus-or-Worm-on-Your-Windows-PC https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-a-Computer-Virus-or-Worm-on-Your-Windows-PC

To what bOne said (and the excellent article to which he referred you), let me add that if you surf a lot or visit sites that are frequent vectors for malware (porn, games, software crack sites), you should also use a resident antivirus since ClamWin doesn't yet have a resident scanner. Avira Antivir, Alwil Avast, and AVG are all free and pretty good if you keep them updated. AVG may be the best one of the three now.

Finally, I suggest that you turn off System Restore, boot into Windows Safe Mode, and run a full scan. If all turns out okay, turn System Restore back on.

Regards,