So whenever I start my PC there's this pop-up that says "Windows can't find C:\Users[Name]\etc\etc\etc" and I tried to remove whatever was happening from Startup but couldn't find anything. I've done eerything, I used Task Manager, I navigated to the startup folder, and I even used Autorun. Heck I used CCleaner to clean Registry files as well. Yet it keeps popping up. Just yesterday I had viruses and I got rid of all of them using Avast, McAfee, Malware scanner and Immunet. And this issue has been coming ever since. How do I fix it?
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An antivirus only finds what it was programmed to find, so there is no guarantee that your computer is not still infected.
In the hope that the virus program was deleted, and only its invocation still remains, search for the program that is named in the error message by using the following tools:
- Autoruns which lists all startups and can search them all
- RegScanner which can quickly search the registry
- voidtools everything which can quickly search all files of the disk after indexing it (Windows Explorer can also do it).
Together they will enable you to eradicate the traces left by the virus. Hopefully the virus was eradicated, but watch for any strange happenings, and keep on running scans by various well-known antivirus products from time to time.
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