Can I delete "Flash" from W:\system 32\Macromed ? and how?

Question

Because Ad-Aware is blocked when arrive to this "Flash".

Answer 1

You have a major drive labled W? How did you manage this? Perhaps you meant to type C and hit the W instead? Anyway, perhaps you have attached an external drive, created an virtual drive, or mapped a drive, or folder.

First, is this "drive W" the drive with your OS installed and all it accompanying folders and files? With all your drivers and such? If so, then don't touch that folder or file! Run your Virus scanning program and see if it comes up as some virus or spyware or another form of malware, and if it does allow the program to deal with it. If for some odd reason you do not currently have a security suite installed and up to date on signatures, then I reccomend you go to a website and get one as soon as you read this, install it and run it. If you can't afford to purchase a commercial solution there are plenty of free programs on the net.

Now, with that said, please be aware that it is not so easy to remove a Virus software program from a system it is installed on. This is normal and due to the way it has to embed ideeply into the OS in order to carry out the job of protecting the system. So, please make sure you have made your mind up of which program you prefer, before you actually install it. If you install such a program and discover you don't like it for any reason, you have to go through hoops to get it fully removed from your system. Until it is fully removed you can't put another program on the system or it will cause instability and lack of protection at best and computer crashes at worst. Crashes are common when individuals are unaware of how difficult such software is to remove and add/remove several such programs.

A source of great freeware is this website:

http://www.cnet.com/downloads

In the upper right corner is a search box for the site. Put in Virus software or virus programs and hit the search button. A page will appear with several different virus programs, which will be freeware, shareware, and commercial products. Click on each one and read all about it, iincluding reviews by other users. After you have checked out several programs make your decison and start the download and installation process.

Now, cnet.com also has a great utility which you can use to clean up your system. It is called CCleaner, for Crap Cleaner and it works great, plus it is free. Put ccleaner into the search box and hit search. Scroll down the list until you come to this super little utility, click on the link, read about it, read the reviews, then download it and install it. After you install it a link to instructions for use, (very simple!) so follow the link, read the beginner's manual and then run the tool. It has a disk cleaner which gets rid of all sorts of trash you had no idea was cluttering up your drive and slowing down your system. It has a Cookie Manager, which allows you to keep your significant cookies and get rid of all the rest, a Startup Manager which allows you to easily and simply manage your startup folder and control which programs start when you boot your system, it has a Uninstall Tool which works much better than Windows Add/Remove applet, a Personal Folder cleaner and a Registry Cleaner tool which has simply beautifully easy to use, works great, and allows simple backups and merge functions, (nobody I know has ever had to do a merge after using this tool). All in all this is a must have utility for any computer systems toolbox, as you will soon see if or when you go and read the reviews, which are in the thousands now by the way which should tell you a whole heck of alot about this tool. It also is very small which means it takes up practically no room on your hard drive, plus it is FREE!

So, get busy with these tasks and soon you will be free of malware and have a clean, lean fighting machine!

Good luck and have a great day!