Are there any?
The ones that suggest they are free are just offereing a scan to tell you what you already know. If you want to remove them you have to pay up or sign up to a free offer of garbage from shops I would not go near.
I’ve got: –
Trojan horse downloader.generic_c.AGS in the C drive, it is invisible, and so are the 38,000 mp3 files it seems to be holding on my drive, taking up 2 gig.
AVG finds them but cannot heal. In explorer “Properties” it tells you the qty of files and gigB used. I seem to be able to compress them, but I stopped the action as it was going to take 2 hours and I’m not sure what good that would have done in the first place.
By: frankvw - 29th December 2008 at 09:00
the “dot” is your current directory, the “double dot” is the directory above. That’s why, in DOS, you type cd .. to go up a level.
Those can NOT be deleted, nor should you attempt it.
By: Corsair82pilot - 29th December 2008 at 05:03
Try this one to clean the registry. It won’t get rid of hijackers or Trojans, but it will clean the unnecessary stuff in the registry. Free and safe.
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm
There is a lot of other free stuff on that site.
By: old shape - 26th December 2008 at 14:14
Some types actually “Hijack” your registry. Here is the link to a free program that will clean bad stuff out of the registry. There is a pay version, but it doesn’t do much more than the free version.
Lavasoft AD-Aware is also good and free. It will get rid of the Trojans.
Spybot is another. Google them.Good luck.
Cheers.
I managed to sort this out in stages.
I downloaded both Malware and Super antispyware (Free) and scanned / deleted anything they found. I was then able to get my Sophos anti virus back on (I couldn’t before) so at least I felt totally covered (I was temp. using AVG free – which is superb but Sophos is best in show).
A full sophos scan revealed one or two more files which I deleted.
I then ran all three programmes again (This was Christmas eve afternoon BTW!) in Safe mode. More files found and deleted.
I then ran a repair installation on Windows XP pro and (Touchwood) all seems fine.
I still have a User account (One of my old ones) that I cannot delete. There are 141 files in it which I cannot see nor delete. But they alls seem to be dead.
If I try and delete the folder I get a msge of “AGF AGF AGF AGF Sangen cannot find the file specified”
In MSDOS, the DIR listing has mine, my sons and then one with a dot . and another with two dots .. I assume one of the dots is this directory I can’t delete, the other is a System directory created by Windows on the rebuild.
Oh, the culprit……I’m certain it was a patch (So called!) to repair Correl Painter Classic. Msge “Not enough memory to run Painter” appeared so I typed that in Google and found what looked like a credible explanation and a downloading file. Me a Fool! I took a total of 45 hours to repair the machine (I took note ‘cos I’m a geek sometimes)
By: Corsair82pilot - 24th December 2008 at 04:57
Some types actually “Hijack” your registry. Here is the link to a free program that will clean bad stuff out of the registry. There is a pay version, but it doesn’t do much more than the free version.
Lavasoft AD-Aware is also good and free. It will get rid of the Trojans.
Spybot is another. Google them.
Good luck.
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