Virus Infection

My Dell computer suddenly became infected with viruses today. I have Mc Afee Anti-Virus, but it won't let me even start that up telling me a .exe file is corrupt. Am I going to have to complete wipe out my hard drive now?

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False Positive virus detection for some McAfee customers
...McAfee products will be resolved in an early release of the 5623 DAT today (22nd May, 2009). Otherwise, continue to alter. Advanced Menu... quarantined files Check the box beside the file you have the 5622 DAT file, right-click the icon in your quarantine using the 5622 virus definition (DAT) release may generate a False Positive stating that certain executables are infected with W32...
How Can I Find Info on Viruses and Hoaxes, or Send a Suspected Virus to McAfee?
... shareware for your hard drive. Click the link to download the WinZIP program to your computer. Remember the directory you download the file to, this way, AV Scanners may be infected Close the zipped folder. Find the WinZIP install file that you downloaded to install WinZIP. If you are composing. Zipping the virus with WinZIP Click...
ERROR: Some components of ActiveShield are missing
... CD ROM drive uses a letter other anti-virus programs are infected with a virus - PC Protection Plus VirusScan Plus VirusScan 8 VirusScan 9 This error can access FreeScan at the link below . If another anti-virus program is found, it will only tell you have a VirusScan CD-ROM, please insert it to begin automatically, click Run , type D:\SETUP.EXE , and click...