Trojan horse virus
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I haven't had any trojan warnings on my pc in quite a while. The only time I ever get exposed to them is downloading of of the likes of limewire. I think most trojans are caught by the ISP before they get the customer via e-mail, I'm fairly certain they have filters weeding out that sort of thing.
McAfee caught one on my PC last week. It was imbeaded in a link which was what turned out to be spam to a porn site, not even a good one either. Otherwise I get nothing but adware.:smile:
HI juan
Last week i found the same virus in my system, i noticed the Trojan are very [FONT="]Dangerous :-(
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I haven't seen a trojen since my computer crashed.
When you get one it has the most interesting message
When you get one it has the most interesting message
At this moment, my AVG is dealing with:-yieldmanager, casalmedia, fastclick, adrevolver, atdmt. Obviously, the people who like to inflict this crap on others are a sorry collection of low lifes who are unable to make their mark in the real world. If this were the only way I could distinguish myself, then it would seem to me that a jump from the CN Tower was in order.
Street. The prices are pretty high at that web site. We don't pay that much in Canada for computers.:-|
Trojans and adware are totally different things. While ad's are annoying, generally they do not harm your PC, unless they you have managed to install ad software which comes bundled with certain types of software. Trojans on the other hand, can allow people to control your pc remotely, turn it into a spam relay, use you pc as a proxy server... the list goes on. If all you have to to worry about is factclick etc, I wouldn't be too worried, you could delete those problems manually from c:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files.
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I've only ever had one virus actually invade my computer. It was some years ago. Yet another Maxtor hard drive had given up the ghost. I installed a new hard drive and it was a couple days before I got AVG installed. The symptoms were obvious.....the computer slowed down to a crawl and and when I looked in windows explorer my computer was filling up with repetitious garbage all by it's self. I think I was lucky. I managed to restart in DOS and punched in Format C and it worked. I formatted all the drives and when I re-installed, AVG was the second thing I put in after Windows.
I usually re-author my Windows Install CD's to include antivirus, drivers, service packs, and other tools.
Magic ISO is a wicked program for re-authoring cd/dvd images.
Magic ISO is a wicked program for re-authoring cd/dvd images.
I was just going to ask if I could put Windows and all the other things like AVG etc on a DVD and put everything in in one go.........but that is what you are telling me. aren't you.
c:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files. deletion is not good enough for me.:lol:
I run: regedit on all the programs in my HD and delete anything I don't recognized.
I would be leery of that option, as I would not want to accidentally delete an important file.8O
Bah hum bug sweetie
I would think that if it's your computer then you know what programs you have running on it..:smile:
Too many people fear that they will accidently delete this or that "important" file...... so what if they did ?:smile:
All you lose is maybe 20 minutes reinstalling the OS, in the process you may even learn something new...
What so wrong about that ?:lol:
Those prices are very high. I could have my absolute dream computer with a 25 inch plasma monitor, the latest dual core processor, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, DVD burner, and windows VISTA for under $2500.00....or 1200 pounds.