multiple profiles per user

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on my home pc I have 3 profiles for each user under documents and settings.
the first is user name the second is username.compter name and the third is
user name.computer name.000 I was told by someone this could be a virus. I
ran macafee and no virus found also use spybot ad-aware and reg mech. any
suggestions how to fix this?

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can I safely delete the corrupt profiles, how do they become corrupt? What
can I do to avoid this in the future? Why did all profiles incl guest which
is disabled and not used get corrupted?

"Mark" wrote:

> If a profile becomes corrupted it will recreate a new one with .001 or .002.
> It's not usually due to a virus.
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> "swimswithsharks" <swimswithsharks"nospam"@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:F5AD0C74-1119-442A-9347-87FF8FD0A980@microsoft.com...
> > on my home pc I have 3 profiles for each user under documents and
> > settings.
> > the first is user name the second is username.compter name and the third
> > is
> > user name.computer name.000 I was told by someone this could be a virus. I
> > ran macafee and no virus found also use spybot ad-aware and reg mech. any
> > suggestions how to fix this?
>
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