Trojan Horse Proxy POG

July 13th, 2007, 10:46 AM

I turned off my computer last night when a thunderstorm started. When I turned it on this morning my AVG started complaining about a kernel change.............Somewhere along the line they changed into 4 threats and then it called up "Trojan Horse Proxy POG". Eventually the threats were deleted. I haven't seen this particular virus before. Anybody else see anything? I haven't downloaded anything for at least a week and a half so I don't know how I managed to get this infection.

July 17th, 2007, 06:47 PM

You can get stuff just by surfing the web... doesn't even need to be the dirty parts of the net. Alot of Italian based webservers got hacked recently by a tool called mpack which causes the webserver to give you lots of malware. I wouldn't be surprised if it included trojans. I've read that the tool masks itself in some way that it makes it very hard to detect so some admins don't even know their website is serving up bad stuff.

You can even get infected by watching YouTube videos, but that is not a common occurrence.

I would be very cautious about any suspicious activity on your computer for the next few days. If you get repeated message on bootup from AVG, then it's got a problem removing it or there is something that is starting on bootup which AVG thinks is bad.

Try an online scanner from Trendmicro or something to see if it detects anything else.

July 17th, 2007, 06:51 PM

references:
mpack
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/03/mpack_reloaded/

youtube
http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/inte...leid=243689287

July 19th, 2007, 01:05 PM

Thanks cdn_bc_ca

Over the last few days I've been gettin all sorts of hits from my AVG. It seems to be catching the viruses but I've never seen so many in such a short time. The latest this morning was "Trojan Horse Back Door Agent IQL" I can only guess that this has something to do with my switch over to XP. I was running Win 98 until I bought the new computer that wouldn't run 98 and I had to switch to XP. With 98 I never got a hit other than one I downloaded, or from an e-mail.

July 19th, 2007, 01:07 PM

Juan, is your PC connected directly to the net or do you connect via a router?

July 19th, 2007, 01:10 PM

My wife and I share a connection with a router..

July 19th, 2007, 01:13 PM

Ipresume you have installed Service Pack 2 and all the security updates? XP is a virus magnet if it hasn't been patched.

July 19th, 2007, 01:18 PM

As far as I know, I've installed every update they've offered.

July 19th, 2007, 01:21 PM

Juan, check out this page. It has removal tools for about every type of virus/trojan etc.

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/s...movaltools.jsp

July 19th, 2007, 01:26 PM

Thanks Durka.....I will give it a shot..