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While doing Windows Recovery I installed IE9 on my Windows Vista machine.

This is the message I got when trying to download IE9 executable (or any .exe file) from IE9:

IE9-WindowsVista-x86-enc-exe contained a virus and was deleted.

This is ridiculous!

It does not seem to be anti-virus software which is doing this.
I also turned off the smart filter and firewalls.

How do we solve this?

Rob Cowell
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Mangesh
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That looks like a typical ruse from one of the many rogue SpyWare-removal/anti-virus programs that people seem to keep getting infected with. You should use these programs to scan your system, preferably from a clean system (with your suspect system's hard drive connected as a secondary drive so that whatever SpyWare or virus infected it will be dormant during the scan):

  Malware Bytes
  http://www.malwarebytes.org/

  SpyBot - Search & Destroy
  http://security.kolla.de/

  F-Prot Anti-Virus (free 30-day trial, then $29/year for 5 computers)
  http://www.f-prot.com/

I use those three programs a lot. They seem to do the job very well for my needs and have been instrumental in removing junk from other peoples' computers.

Randolf Richardson
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