How to remove the Antivir virus?

Virus remains, poss lovgate.I, file 0003.spl

• Hi, I recently got broadband, and (VERY stupidly i know) didn't activate my virus software/firewall immediately and straight away i got hacked, and a worm was also on my computer. I sorted eveythin out, and installed antivir free virus software. Everything has been fine since, but it keeps flagging up one file as containg the worm signature and i am unable to remove it either via the anti-virus software or manually, as it says it is being used by another person or programme. I am running xp (eurgh i know), and the file is called 0003.spl in the following directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS i have tried virus cleaners from sophos and symantec, but they can't detect anything. There doesn't seem to be any visible affect on my computers day-to-day running (although it is being rather slow to load up windows). Hope thats enough info, and that you can help, Many thanks

• Answer:

  Hello happy monkey, Well, how nice - thank you. I'm happy to hear all is well but I'm not surprised to hear that HouseCall found something when others failed - it really is one of those very useful programs and it's free to boot. Another nice program is AVG antivirus - I use the free version for my day-to-day monitoring and every few months use HouseCall just to double-check. HouseCall: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ AVG: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php Thanks again - may your computer stay virus-free for years to come, hummer