How to remove bots from my computer?

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Published on 2009-12-06T11:55:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 14:31 UTC
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Because trend micro's rubotted detected that there is a bot running on my system and recommends to run Trend micro's house call to remove the bot. But when I ran house call, it does not detect anything. By the way,my current antivirus software is Microsoft Security Essentials.

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