Infected with Trojan and not impressed

twinklyspangle · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:35 pm

I don't know how I got it, or where this should go. I'm thinking maybe the computer help sticky, but it all looked a bit complicated in there./

Basiccaly, I ran a free virus scanner and my computer is horribly infected with the Trojan virus. How can I get rid of it? It's doing horrible things to my computer

Articfox · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:41 pm

Well you mite want to sever your internet connection, because trojans report back to there masters about info on your computer and all...and I guess you'll have to remove them with an ati-virus software or re-format.

Dragonfire · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:50 pm

If you have to re-format, I suggest doing a zerofill on your HDD. It's basically the same as reformatting, but it fills your HDD with zeroes (since the info is stored using binary). I've done a zerofill before, and it fixed a lot of problems.

Hunter Lupe · **Posts:** 1140 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 1:36 pm

twinklyspangle wrote:

Basiccaly, I ran a free virus scanner and my computer is horribly infected with the Trojan virus. How can I get rid of it? It's doing horrible things to my computer

Exactly which free virus scanner is that?

DiscordantNote · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:19 pm

What kind of trojan? There's more than one.

Yes, you should remove it as soon as you can. Also think of any ways you might have gotten it (like past downloads) so you won't get it again.

halfbakedbliss · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:45 pm

Hunter Lupe wrote:

twinklyspangle wrote:

Basiccaly, I ran a free virus scanner and my computer is horribly infected with the Trojan virus. How can I get rid of it? It's doing horrible things to my computer

Exactly which free virus scanner is that?

If its a rather obscure one, or one you got from a pop-up, that'd be a odd, but intelligent way to get a horse in. What OS and browser were you running?

Shoyru_Lover · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:25 pm

Try running ad-aware and running your virus scanner. that should tackle it.

Orhonjan · **Posts:** 173 **Joined:** Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:35 am

ad-aware wouldn't work most probably.

norton can clean trojans. also there is a program called trojan cleaner but i didn't use it.

probably typing trojan cleaner in google would work.

Christopher · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:32 am

Well start the computer in safe mode, ad aware, virus scan, delete cookies, Temp, temp internet, and check MSconfig for anything that shouldn't be there.

You can also risk going on the net and finding a specific cure for the trojan.

Tailseh · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:24 am

It'd be a little more helpful if you could say what trojan it is.. then we could give specific instructions.. (sorry if i sound rude)

twinklyspangle · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:05 am

I would tell you what type of trojan if I could remember, and the the virus scan took about an hour to do. There were loads of different types though, the box was all filled up with different virus (virusi?)

Basically, my Dad will kill me if I tell him this, last time I was home from Uni I downloaded a virus that wiped his entire harddrive. I need to get rid of it quickly and FREE.

IS this even possible?!

Soujiro · **Posts:** 388 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 7:11 pm

AVG will get rid of them for free.

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

optimus_87_ca · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:17 pm

twinklyspangle wrote:

There were loads of different types though, the box was all filled up with different virus (virusi?)

I believe the word is virii.

This has been a useless comment by optimus_87_ca.

DiscordantNote · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:51 pm

optimus_87_ca wrote:

twinklyspangle wrote:

There were loads of different types though, the box was all filled up with different virus (virusi?)

I believe the word is virii.

This has been a useless comment by optimus_87_ca.

It wasn't that useless, i myself was curious as to what the plural of 'virus' was.

If you messed up the computer before, then why didn't you family go and buy a virus scanner to keep it from happening again?

Shoyru_Lover · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:28 am

Oh yeah, most things can be gotton rid of on the computer. Stress less =]

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