O/T - Trojan Horse virus

[Deleted]

Please tell me how to get rid of this bloody trojan horse virus? Pissed off, any program or something to get rid?

Please help

:beer:

[Chicken George]

stop looking at dodgy porn sites!!! LOL

seriously though.. what is it? and what Anti virus do you currently have?

[Deleted]

AVG, it doesn't seem to able to get rid of it, pissed off.

[ClaytonTerrier]

www.malwarebytes.org/

download that and use full scan, should get rid of it

[Chicken George]

try Microsoft essentials....
its free and from Ms , have installed this on a few machines..

whose your isp? sometimes they provide paid AV software for free

[Deleted]

Malwarebytes is a good shout. After that, scotty winpatrol can prevent anything changing your registry, which removes the threat from most viruses, I find.

[marsh]

Swap your PC for a Mac - or try Linux!!

[terrier26]

Try Hitman pro - that got rid of my virus

[Deleted]

AVG is rubbish... There are reasons as to why it's free.

Malware bytes is a top program that i'd recommend as above... Also I'd run a virus scan from here - housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/

After that get Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Having rolled out AV to a couple of companies Kaspersky is the dogs... BitDefender is good as well but stay away from Norton, AVG, Sophos and McAfee.

Need any help drop me a PM

[Spunker]

Sept 20, 2010 21:31:29 GMT 1 @matt said:

AVG is rubbish... There are reasons as to why it's free.

Malware bytes is a top program that i'd recommend as above... Also I'd run a virus scan from here - housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/

After that get Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Having rolled out AV to a couple of companies Kaspersky is the dogs... BitDefender is good as well but stay away from Norton, AVG, Sophos and McAfee.

Need any help drop me a PM

Just tried the housecall, I thought my laptop was clean. However, it found troj pdfjsc.tr, whatever that is. Good work!! Thanks.

[terryerryerryers]

Avast got rid of that virus for moi

downatthemac.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pchelp&action=display&thread=40896

[Deleted]

we dont get computer virues over here

[Deleted]

i ve had a nightmare six months with this.i d love to get my hands on the sad sad geek that did it :ranting: :boxing:

[Deleted]

Sept 20, 2010 23:45:43 GMT 1 @fitzyblue said:

i ve had a nightmare six months with this.i d love to get my hands on the sad sad geek that did it

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Sorry.. life gets boring over here

[Deleted]

Sept 20, 2010 23:45:43 GMT 1 @fitzyblue said:

i ve had a nightmare six months with this.i d love to get my hands on the sad sad geek that did it

:wave2:

[Deleted]

Sept 21, 2010 0:01:32 GMT 1 @matt said:

Sept 20, 2010 23:45:43 GMT 1 @fitzyblue said:

i ve had a nightmare six months with this.i d love to get my hands on the sad sad geek that did it

i m on it :nodding:

[Deleted]

Sept 20, 2010 21:31:29 GMT 1 @matt said:

AVG is rubbish... There are reasons as to why it's free.

Malware bytes is a top program that i'd recommend as above... Also I'd run a virus scan from here - housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/

After that get Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Having rolled out AV to a couple of companies Kaspersky is the dogs... BitDefender is good as well but stay away from Norton, AVG, Sophos and McAfee.

Need any help drop me a PM

I've tried housecall and malware bytes but neither will run on my laptop. I've got something called MS Removal tool that keeps coming up says i have various viruses and spyware and then tries to prompt me to but a product to remove these viruses and spyware etc. This programme then seems to block the ise of things like housecall i can go to the website click to scan then on run but then it seems to get blocked.

Is there anyway to sort this out and get my laptop cleaned up as its currently tempting me to throw it out of the window and stick to using my work laptop.

Hopefully you or someone on here can help as this is pissing me right off?

Thanks in advance

[Deleted]

Apr 4, 2011 15:51:56 GMT 1 @donniebrasco said:

Sept 20, 2010 21:31:29 GMT 1 @matt said:

AVG is rubbish... There are reasons as to why it's free.

Malware bytes is a top program that i'd recommend as above... Also I'd run a virus scan from here - housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/

After that get Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Having rolled out AV to a couple of companies Kaspersky is the dogs... BitDefender is good as well but stay away from Norton, AVG, Sophos and McAfee.

Need any help drop me a PM

I've tried housecall and malware bytes but neither will run on my laptop. I've got something called MS Removal tool that keeps coming up says i have various viruses and spyware and then tries to prompt me to but a product to remove these viruses and spyware etc. This programme then seems to block the ise of things like housecall i can go to the website click to scan then on run but then it seems to get blocked.

Is there anyway to sort this out and get my laptop cleaned up as its currently tempting me to throw it out of the window and stick to using my work laptop.

Hopefully you or someone on here can help as this is pissing me right off?

Thanks in advance

Alright mate.

From memory I think I've got one of these before. Think you have to start your laptop in safe mode - then the virus process can't start... If you then go to START > RUN and type in msconfig.exe you should get the system config come up:

Within startup you get all the programs which start when your pc starts - have a look through the list and if anything seems suspicious then in startup items untick it... It will also tell you the location of where it's installed.

Make a note of anything that you've stopped - restart your PC and if you've stopped the trojan it won't start again and you should then be able to run Malware Bytes/Kaspersky/House Call to get rid of it...

Once rid go back to msconfig and restart any items that you've unticked.

[mirfieldchris]

I used this to get rid of the MS Removal Tool thingy.
www.superantispyware.com

Start up in safe mode and try it. It asks for a donation but I just skipped past that bit 'cos I'm tight.

[htafcchris]

I currently use avast as my anti-virus which I haven't had any problems with so far and comes with recomendations!

As HRN said, Kapersky is about the best paid software you can get, never had any problems with Norton either. I had free McAfee from SKy when I joined but it simply holds up :: everytime a virus is near!

[Michelotti]

If you've got enough space on your hard drive, Install Linux, it free! (Ubuntu is probably the most user friendly) beside windows then you get the benefit of both worlds. Virus free web browsing with Linux and Windows friendly software for everything else, either that or bin Windows and Run Linux. Most Windows software works on it using a free emulator anyway.

[philex]

Apr 6, 2011 18:13:57 GMT 1 mirfieldchris said:

I used this to get rid of the MS Removal Tool thingy.
www.superantispyware.com

Start up in safe mode and try it. It asks for a donation but I just skipped past that bit 'cos I'm tight.

Used that to clear up my works laptop today after well and truly screwing it up last night - saved me having to explain how it was fucked to the bosses!

[ksne]

Bullguard for me.

[slemish]

Autoruns Exe, scroll down the list until you see AVG SSTDX and untick it. Hey presto it is gone forever!