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Hello team liquid, yes this is another help thread. It seems as though my brother has infected our computer with some trojan horse viruses and this is the family computer. We've been trying everything, including updating our norton anti-virus protector, downloading a trojan horse remover, and doing extensive research.
I'd rather not have to back up my entire c-drive and redo everything from scratch, what is the best way to go about this. I've scanned our entire computer with norton but it isn't picking it up. Everytime I try to navigate on the internet right now this annoying pop-up shows up:
Some dangerous Trojan horses detected in system. Microsoft XP files may be corrupted. This may lead to destruction of importan C files. Download protection software now! Click here to download.
I'm not sure if this is part of the trojan horse virus or what, so any advice. What should I do?
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That warning just sounds like its a fake way to get you to download some freeware with lots of pop ups and maybe even virus' itself. I'd suggest if you haven't ~ AdAware SE, Spybot Search & Destroy, and there are tons of free or atleast trial versions of McAfee, Webroot Spy Sweeper, Trend Micro "PC-Cillin" Antivirus, etc. If its just an ad program then AdAware should take care of it, that and Spybot. If its serious, the last three should work, but if norton doesn't pick it up im not sure its a virus, but I don't remember where Norton ranks on the list of how good it scans.
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reinstall windows -> no shit this is the only solution
also you should make at least 2 partitions (or have an external drive), so you can reinstall windows without backup problems if it is needed
ahh and why is everyone using norton... i heard it is the worst antivirus ever
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i just had problems with spywares/Trojans on my computer. i think i got rid of most of it.
please look at some screenshots i have posted in this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=67148
if they look similar to ur problem, download AVG Free Virus Edition 8.0. it's the only thing that actually removes even the ones running in your memory.
don't use softwares like search & destroy, because they will NOT remove any spywares. it may seem like they do, but when you search again, the spywares are still in your computer.
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Snet
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I miss the days when I shared a comp so when I fuck anything up I could blame it on my brother.
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hijackthis is the best if you have time to actually study about cleaning up your computer.
http://www.hijackthis.de/
they have nice forums, where you actually are helped in the weird world of analyzing hjt-logs.
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if norton isnt working for you, i seriously recoomend avg antivirus, you can get the free edition (free obviously). I had a similar problem to you, and avg got rid of it with no problems
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On June 05 2008 22:17 .kaz wrote:
That warning just sounds like its a fake way to get you to download some freeware with lots of pop ups and maybe even virus' itself. I'd suggest if you haven't ~ AdAware SE, Spybot Search & Destroy, and there are tons of free or atleast trial versions of McAfee, Webroot Spy Sweeper, Trend Micro "PC-Cillin" Antivirus, etc. If its just an ad program then AdAware should take care of it, that and Spybot. If its serious, the last three should work, but if norton doesn't pick it up im not sure its a virus, but I don't remember where Norton ranks on the list of how good it scans.
Webroot Spy Sweeper = instant win
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Since you have XP, use System Restore to go back 1 or 2 days (or a time before the virus infected your PC). This solves a majority of the problems due to viruses and has helped me quite a few times when I couldn't figure out a specific problem that was killing my computer. Just hope you haven't disabled it and still have periodic checkpoints made.
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So...you have a trojan and you logged in using the same computer?
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On June 06 2008 02:00 MasterReY wrote:Show nested quote +On June 05 2008 22:17 .kaz wrote:
That warning just sounds like its a fake way to get you to download some freeware with lots of pop ups and maybe even virus' itself. I'd suggest if you haven't ~ AdAware SE, Spybot Search & Destroy, and there are tons of free or atleast trial versions of McAfee, Webroot Spy Sweeper, Trend Micro "PC-Cillin" Antivirus, etc. If its just an ad program then AdAware should take care of it, that and Spybot. If its serious, the last three should work, but if norton doesn't pick it up im not sure its a virus, but I don't remember where Norton ranks on the list of how good it scans. Webroot Spy Sweeper = instant win
I love that program.
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rather than making a new topic, i'd just bump this one.
nwiz.exe-2d0f9FBC.pf
theres a new virus that poses nvidia's nwiz.exe application, and I was wondering If anyone could help me find out if that file is related to the trojan.
Its a prefetch file, and I dont know whether to delete it or what, If anyone could help me It would be greatly appreciated.
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download avast antivirus and run a preboot scan. it got rid of like 10 trojans for me.
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A trojan and a virus are two different things. In your case, you probably just have adware/spyware/malware.
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EPT
