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Posted by admyc on April 26, 2007, 5:05 pm
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Hello,
I think I might have some sort of mal-ware on my computer. The reason
for this is that my anti-virus software (AVG free 7) has recently
found and deleted (I think) some viruses all of which had 'Trojan
horse downloader' in part of their name and since then my MSIE6
browser has been slightly odd, for example when I click on its icon to
launch MSIE6 and my computer connects to the internet over its dial-up
connection the MSIE browser window takes a lot longer to appear then
it used to.
But my real concern and question is that I have noticed, when I look
at my Internet connection status dialogue box, that data is being sent
even though I have only one web-page up and it has long since finished
downloading, is this a sign of mal-ware that is sending info and or
files from my computer to another computer over my internet connection
or could it be some innocent process going on in the background?
Any help very much appreciated.
AM
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Posted by David H. Lipman on April 26, 2007, 5:26 pm
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| Hello,
|
| I think I might have some sort of mal-ware on my computer. The reason
| for this is that my anti-virus software (AVG free 7) has recently
| found and deleted (I think) some viruses all of which had 'Trojan
| horse downloader' in part of their name and since then my MSIE6
| browser has been slightly odd, for example when I click on its icon to
| launch MSIE6 and my computer connects to the internet over its dial-up
| connection the MSIE browser window takes a lot longer to appear then
| it used to.
|
| But my real concern and question is that I have noticed, when I look
| at my Internet connection status dialogue box, that data is being sent
| even though I have only one web-page up and it has long since finished
| downloading, is this a sign of mal-ware that is sending info and or
| files from my computer to another computer over my internet connection
| or could it be some innocent process going on in the background?
|
| Any help very much appreciated.
|
| AM
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go
through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal
Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the
PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you
can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded
the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode
[F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run
in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive
PDF help
file.
Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
* * * Please report back your results * * *
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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