[pchelpers] Re: antitrojan help
- From: " Billyus Eximius" <billy.e@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:34:41 +0100
The funny thing is, I ran Trend house call, and it didn't pick up the
Trojan, but it did pick up other bits and bobs that AVG hadn't. this thing
has been really wierd.
Billy
> If you post here
>
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?s=6ddd128e5fb95207a1d74a1b17575cda&showforum=32
> i'm sure you'll get a very friendly and competent answer and solution
soon.
>
> But you sound like you have enough experience to find the culprit
> yourself. According to your answer to Ed's questions, you should be able
> to delete the trojan simply by turning off System Restore, because
> that's where you say it is. When you turn System Restore off correctly,
> it deletes that folder. But the trojan is probably elsewhere too.
>
> Did you turn off System Restore *and* then immediately restart Windows
> in safe mode *and* run AVG? If you did all that and AVG can't kill it,
> that would be the first case i've seen of AVG not working correctly,
> especially since it found the trojan. Try downloading a different
> antivirus program. This would really interest me and probably you and
> many others if another program would handle this pest better than AVG.
>
> Have you tried following these directions?:
> www.nohack.net/detection.htm
>
> I just sent an email to the TDS-3 people. It definitely does not say
> that the program will only detect and not delete during the 30-day trial
> period. If it doesn't delete, you can't see if and how it works. That is
> a scam not used by trustworthy companies.
>
> Ek
>
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