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Microsoft Security Essentials found  DOS/ALUREON.J  on my Windows XP Home Edition computer.  It partially removed it, but left remnants, and I am unable to remove them; the computer is still logey and temperamental.   I found a page (and have now lost

it) explaining an intricate way to start removing the trojan remnants on windows 7, and it said to click on a line for Windows XP instructions, but the link was not functioning. I have since been unable to find the page again. 

Until yesterday, I had Avast (free) antivirus, and yesterday I switched to AVG (free) because fore weeks the computer got increasingly slower, causing me to reboot a couple of times a day.  MSE found the trojan today.  I have not changed any settings since

then.   I use both IE8 and Chrome Version 26.0.1410.64 m.   

 

 

Please...I am desperate....what are the steps  I should take? 

(Warning:  I am 75 and no computer genius.  ) 

 

 

 

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