Scan quarantined "mssecc.exe" in c:\windows\system32\. Says: to delete if no longer needed... safe to do??

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Scan quarantined "mssecc.exe" in c:\windows\system32\. Says: to delete if no longer needed... safe to do??
It's a trojan. Nobody needs a trojan (unless you want it for sentimental reasons). You can safely delete it.
Reply:Check online. Look up the file on google. There are a number of Anti-Virus softwares that produce false positives and you really could be deleting a necessary system file. Anything that is in that directory is normally pretty important and deleting them can cause you to crash your computer, and if you are not computer savy or dont have a system disk, this can mean a spendy tech bill to fix. If it is quarentined, then it cant do harm. If it is a virus, there will be posts on line. Norton / Symantic are both notorious for false positives. Also, you can scan with other antivirus softwares and see if there are multiple hits on it. I personally recomend AdAwareSE by Lavasoft and Spybot: Search and Destroy. These two are not known for false positives, and do a decent job of removing and finding the nasties. Both can find non standard viruses or new versions of them, and if not stop them, they can at least find them, and give you an idea of what they are so you can get a removal tool that will.