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I was looking through my Windows XP Registry and I noticed there were a lot of folders with "CurVer" and "CLSID" in them. Is this a virus, or malware?

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by Stableboy on Oct 10, 2006 at 9:52 pm Permalink

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These keys are associated with COM objects: various components which belong to applications. Don't mess with them, you'll break things.
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Avatar Anonymous Oct, 11 2006 at 07:02 AM
I was wondering about that, I just recently gotten Spyware in my computer, and to me, everything looks potentially hazardous right now. Thank you!


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