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Posted by 1234 on January 13, 2008, 1:12 pm
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> | Thanks for the link. I had looked it up earlier, seems like a
> legitimate
> | part of a troublesome program. I'm still not sure if Adobe is the
> source of
> | the Trojan, or the way the Trojan is expressing itself (did I say that
> | right?). Just a curiosity.
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> | More important to me: If I save Favorites, Mail Settings, Mail, Address
> | Books, etc., from the infected machine to a CD, in order to use them in
> the
> | "new" install, could they in any way "carry" the Trojan information and
> | reinfect? Seems like it's advised to save important data before killing
> the
> | Trojan -- I just want to know if any of the saved treasures (including
> | documents, spreadsheets, registry settings....) could be potentially
> | harmful.
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> | Thanks so much for your help!
> | Ellen
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> Ellen:
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> Adobe is NOT the source of any Trojan. Names of malware files often use
> names similar to or
> the actual names of legitimate files to obfuscate their malicious intent.
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> If you copy data specific locations, the Trojan will not be carried over.
> If you copy parts
> of the OS, TEMP, IE TIF, etc., then your action may increase the chance of
> transferring the
> Trojan.
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> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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Thank you, Dave. I can rest now.
Another moment of being eternally grateful for newsgroup folks.
Ellen
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