Trojan horse advice

Old Mar 3, 2005 | 08:02 PM
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Trojan horse advice

Yeah, I'm a dumbass, but let's move on from that.

I opened a webpage and my download accelerator downloaded something called 'speed.exe'. It seems as though there were a buttload of trojan horses involved.

It made it to where I couldn't open IE or Outlook Express. Fortunately, I could open Netscape, so I did some research and downloaded spybot.

Ultimately, I couldn't delete a file call klogini.dll, so I just went to system restore and set it to 21 FEB.

Will system restore actually restore my HD back to that configuration? Is there still a trojan horse or two hidden somewhere on my HD?

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Old Mar 3, 2005 | 09:17 PM
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What antivirus are you using?

go to www.grisoft.com and download the free version of AVG.

Boot your computer in safe mode, and do a full scan.
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Old Mar 3, 2005 | 09:29 PM
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Using NAV. I actually have a ?subscription to AVG, but I was too lazy to put it on this computer (since Norton already was.)

Alrighty, I'll take your advice.

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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 12:45 AM
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I hate Norton Antivirus for a lot of different reasons. I've never had good luck with it (except for the corporate server/client model). I have never been failed by AVG *knocks on wood*.
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by IS2Scooby
I hate Norton Antivirus *.
Norton=tEh GhEy!
at work we have Norton... worst investment.




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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 07:18 AM
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The only thing I'm afraid of is how integrated is NAV into my OS? Can I just delete it?
Old Mar 4, 2005 | 01:28 PM
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ok question......what is the best software to get to block trojans, and ads and all the **** that slows down the comp....yesterday i bought spysweeper....is that good or is there something better?????
Old Mar 4, 2005 | 01:30 PM
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The only thing I'm afraid of is how integrated is NAV into my OS? Can I just delete it?
Don't just delete... always uninstall. If you can't there is a manual uninstallation method but norton sucks donkey ***** and it's pretty complex. We have so many problems with users that have it but I won't even get into that.
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Norton=tEh GhEy!
at work we have Norton... worst investment.




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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 02:09 PM
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Yup norton sucks!

As Sykosis said, DO NOT DELETE LIKE THAT, just uninstall it via control panel/ add and remove prog... if it does not work, got to work on the registry and manual delete of Norton left overs...

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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 02:55 PM
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so is Spy Sweeper any good??????
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I like Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy the best.

Best 'Net practices are the key to remaining free of all that crap.
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Don't forget to update the reference files as well !
Old Mar 4, 2005 | 09:17 PM
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Hehe I use spybot and ad-aware too, but i have some crappy icons on my desktop even they cant delete.
Old Mar 4, 2005 | 09:43 PM
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that was the exact problem.. i was browsing through the vid section on iclub and i went to a site with a link

m90.org or something..
DO NOT GO HERE!

a whole crapload of adwares and hijacks that suddenly entered my computer... that was last night... now im frantically trying to get rid of it!

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