Trojan horse virus

May 7th, 2007, 11:49 AM

My AVG anti-virus program just caught a Trojan Horse downloader virus. I haven't seen one for a couple years now. It must have come in on an e-mail because I haven't downloaded anything for some time. Anyone else have this experience recently?

May 7th, 2007, 01:09 PM

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.

May 7th, 2007, 01:15 PM

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.

May 7th, 2007, 01:34 PM

Hi Durka Hi eh1eh

Another thing I've noticed is the increasing number of updates I get from AVG. I seem to be getting 3 or 4 a day.

May 9th, 2007, 02:49 AM

HI juan

Last week i found the same virus in my system, i noticed the Trojan are very Dangerous



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May 9th, 2007, 05:39 AM

Juan: noticed that my AVG has been fairly active as well. 3 or 4 times a day would be the same for me, could it be on a site like this?

May 9th, 2007, 07:58 AM

I haven't seen a trojen since my computer crashed.

When you get one it has the most interesting message

May 9th, 2007, 08:21 AM

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.

May 9th, 2007, 08:35 AM

Street. The prices are pretty high at that web site. We don't pay that much in Canada for computers.

May 9th, 2007, 09:16 AM

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.

May 9th, 2007, 11:16 AM

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.

May 9th, 2007, 11:48 AM

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.

May 9th, 2007, 12:03 PM

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.

May 9th, 2007, 12:14 PM

Yeah, thats pretty much what I was telling you.

June 8th, 2007, 09:38 PM

c:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files. deletion is not good enough for me.

I run: regedit on all the programs in my HD and delete anything I don't recognized.

June 8th, 2007, 11:02 PM

I would be leery of that option, as I would not want to accidentally delete an important file.

June 9th, 2007, 11:39 AM

Bah hum bug sweetie

I would think that if it's your computer then you know what programs you have running on it..

Too many people fear that they will accidently delete this or that "important" file...... so what if they did ?

All you lose is maybe 20 minutes reinstalling the OS, in the process you may even learn something new...

What so wrong about that ?

June 9th, 2007, 12:11 PM

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.