By: Dazza - 19th January 2004 at 19:04
CWShredder is very useful, I recently downloaded this after a browser hijack and it worked wonders, another program which is handy is Ad-aware from Lavasoft, a free version is available to download.
-Dazza
By: Flood - 19th January 2004 at 16:41
So did this guy explain how he knew you had a trojan?
Flood.
By: Geforce - 19th January 2004 at 15:48
Will follow your advice Jonesy, but I deleted the mail already.
What’s the use of such a virus actually?! Can he/she who infected my computer see my files?
By: Hand87_5 - 19th January 2004 at 15:14
Originally posted by kev35
Kev is now back! Sorry.;)I had a serious windows problem apparently then one ortwo other bits of trouble but hopefully ok now.
Regards,
kev35
Back? Sounds like pretty good news to me:)
By: kev35 - 19th January 2004 at 15:12
Kev is now back! Sorry.;)
I had a serious windows problem apparently then one ortwo other bits of trouble but hopefully ok now.
Regards,
kev35
By: Jonesy - 19th January 2004 at 13:19
Formatting your HD is a bit drastic there Ben. No real need to go to quite that extreme just yet.
Two freeware programmes you could download to help would be:
SpyHunter from Enigma. You can download a free version of the spyware scanner from
http://www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com/jump.shtml
This will sift through your HD and detect any Trojans lurking therein. Simplest thing to do with whatever it finds is to either Google search on the name of the Trojan detected (someone will likely have found and smashed it somewhere) or go somewhere like http://www.computercops.biz/ and ask a question on their forum on how to deal with that specific Trojan. Word of advice though, dont buy the license for the removal section of the SpyHunter programme as it has been known that SpyHunter can produce the odd false positive in order to convince you to part with your cash unecessarily. The sweeper programme section is very good though and, provided you verify your results, you can quite handily turn the tables on the writers!
and…
If youre having issues with some of your browser searches or personal homepage settings being mysteriously changed then download the excellent “CWShredder” from:
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html
This identifies any browser hijackers in your registry files etc and cleans them dynamically.
By: Snapper - 19th January 2004 at 13:12
I agree with Moggy – post the text here.
FYI, Kev is out of action with PC problems, and I’ve had running fights with mine over the last two weeks.
By: Moggy C - 19th January 2004 at 13:08
If this ‘warning’ took the form that there is a trojan that has left a file on your computer, then it goes on to tell you to search for that file and delete it, particularly if it’s the one with a teddy bear icon, this could well be one of the many hoaxes aimed at making you delete a perfectly harmless but useful Windows file.
Post the text here and let us see.
Moggy
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January 19, 2004 at 12:56 pm