I accidentally downloaded something called 7zip, and my friend told me it gives viruses. I tried to uninstall, but it says I have to wait until it's done changing or uninstalling first. But it isn't uninstalling yet! Please help, and fast!
Anonymous
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7zip is a legitimate program. But often the files you download to open in it are infected, like many other public downloads. Your friend is wrong. But only EVER download a program from its' official site. In this case if you got it from http://www.7-zip.org it is a safe original copy. In any case do NOT try to uninstall or delete anything, if you do this to a virus infected program it will replicate all over the machine making it much worse. Download the free scanner from http://malwarebytes.org and run the full scan.
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7Zip isn't a virus, it's a tool used to open archives (.rar, .zip, etc).
If you downloaded it from the official site (here: http://7-zip.org), or cnet then you'll be fine.
However, it could contain a virus if it was downloaded from another, non-reliable site.
Scan your computer, and try uninstalling it in a couple hours.
Bomber
7zip is a freeware archiving utility and it doesn't give you viruses it's a very useful tool what will give you viruses is if you download an archived file containing a virus and you decompress it and run the program within but No 7zip won't in it's self give you a virus
Simon
Download "AVG free". Google it. It's the best free anti virus software you can get. Run a full scan. Problems solved. It will also scan downloaded content in the future so it won't happen again
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it isn't a virus but it is a compressing software and you can delete it in the program files folder on the windows drive it might be most probably C drive in your my computer folder.