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mwah
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 Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:37 am Post subject: Always Infected -- Need Help Plz |
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Ever since my Norton expired I have been using AVG and I'll tell ya, I have had nothing but trojan horse after trojan horse infect my pc.
How do I stop this?!?
I am getting so frustrated!
The newest one is Downloader.Small.6.T
Does anyone have any suggestioned solutions??
Maybe a better virus scanner than AVG... that is free... and safe to d/l
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If it helps I will give some additional info...
I am running Windows XP Professional
My antivirus is AVG 6.0 Free version
I have run AdAware & Spybot.
I do have HijackThis but because I am not sure about the log part, I haven't used it much. A friend of mine helped with the first time I used it which was about 2 weeks or so ago.
The trojan horse is found in this file... C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\LPRHELP.EXE
If this is not the correct board, I would appreciate it if someone could direct me to where I need to go.
Thanks
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mrrockford
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Howdy,
I can't tell you much about AVG but AVPE has excellent AT capabilities. Try it out and see if it helps with your problems.
A little install help:
Install only as admin!! not user with admin rights.
If you need more help with AVPE I will gladly help. If you don't want to try it then I suggest you post a log in the HJT forum.
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mwah
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | AVPE has excellent AT capabilities |
What is AVPE and what is AT? I am not all that pc savy.
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Prince_Serendip
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mwah
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Welcome to Computer Cops! |
Thanks for the welcome. I hope to learn a lot from this site. It looks very informative and safe.
| Quote: | | You can download it right here at Computer Cops |
I tried to download it but when I want to open/extract it, the file is not known to my pc. Do you have another suggestions?
In the meantime, does anyone know how I can remove the trojan that has already infected my pc?
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Ikeb
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Go to the New Users forum and read the topics relating to your problem. The directions provided by Robin are excellent.
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Prince_Serendip
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mwah
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | your pc probably did not recognize the AVPE file because it was zipped? |
Yes I seen that it was zipped. I am a bit familiar with WinZip. I used it to unzip it to a file of my choice. When I went to open the file it uses a file .tar ... my pc doesn't know what program to use to open it because of this extention.
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mwah
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | This is a problem beyond your control. |
Thank goodness cause I was starting to get worried that my pc was really just a piece of crap.
Thanks, I went there and the download was easy. Did a scan and it picked out 19 worms and trojan horses. Nasty!
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mrrockford
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Howdy,
Prince has this under control in HJT. I am locking this thread.
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