alsalaam alikom
sometimes you get the so called patch files after you download some files that would crack specific software, and some of them was easy to get rid of and some of them were really hard even to find where they are on your hard drive
however my own experience , i found out that you MUST get rid of internet explorer and use netscape ONLY as you window browser
and i do not like using firewall or antivirus because i am sure those who made the viruses and the patches are those who made the firewall
always keep the inportant files on cd , or dvd or portable harddrive
when you find a suspecious file with the extension .exe you should first check the task manager ALT+CTR+DEL to make sure that the file you think it is a patch or virus is running a process in the task manager
then sinply try to delete the process first , if the process keeps comming back then that is the file you need to get rid of
now go to the RUN - REGEDIT and click edit then find then type the name of the file and click find, every time you find the file in the registery DO NOT delete it , just add some letter to it
then go back to the task manager and try to stop the process , if it does not stop restart window in safe mode and use the task manager to stop the process, if the process stopped , then go the file where ever it is on your hard drive and write down the file size, then change the file extension to TXT, then open the file and delete every thing inside the file and then write any thing to replace whatever you have deleted , and just enough to get the file size back to the size it has before you opened it, then save the file and change the file extension back to EXE and change the file property to READ ONLY
now all this because the hackers are looking for thier files on your computer and if you erased the file, then they will simply send another one , but if keep the file with the same name and size but nothing else inside the file , then you are ok at least till you stert looking again for another crack to some sofware
you can do that with all kind of files even those that antivirus software do not know how to get rid off, and believe me it was very frustrating when the antivirus software write a message say "WE CAN NOT DELETE THE FILE"
i do thank you all for the effort to help each other
that is a great atitude