http://www.computersafetytip.com A wordpress blog about computer safety Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:52:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Malware can be very irritating to everybody. Sometimes even very good malware removal programs may not work well if the malware processes are already running once the tools try to delete it. 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