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Downloads download and get removed and disappear

crossfiresli160

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Feb 16, 2011
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every time i download something on any web browser (chrome,opera,safari,firefox) it downloads but then it gets deleted and i get a message that says what ever you downloaded cant be found.can it be some sort of infection? because the directory is set to the downloads folder on every web browser and i even tried putting the diectory on the desktop but they still get deleted.it still downloads i can see it @ the bottom of chrome.
 
sounds like a virus
you need to download the program Malwarebytes on another computer and put on a jump drive or disc and then run it on the infected machine

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

do a full scan and see what happens