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What is trojanhorse doing in my computer?

how do i slay it? i hold avg trial book and it puts it contained by tomb but more hang on to coming backbone.


Answers: There are free anti-virus scanners availble. They work resourcefully. I close to AVG the best of adjectives the free anti-virus programs


avg
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

Avira AntiVir
http://www.free-av.com/



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You may also want to scan for any possible spyware to prevent virus from coming back

Here is a inventory of some free ANTI-SPYWARE programs.
Adaware is probably the most popular.

Adaware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaw...

Microsoft Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security...

AVG
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-spy...

Spyware Terminator 2
http://www.spywareterminator.com/...

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/...

SuperAntispyware
http://superantispyware.com/


Anti-Spyware for a cost.
Personally I bought Webroot's Spysweeper, their product is great and in good health worth the money. Watch Best Buy ad because sometimes it go on Dutch auction for $10 to $15.

Webroot Spysweeper
http://www.webroot.com/consumer/compare/...
PCTools Spyware Doctor
http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/...

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You can also do an online scan for virus and spyware for free from the most important vendor. Some these require Internet Explorer to run because of Active-X

Trend-Micro
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/...
Computer Associates
http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pes...
Panda Software
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/s...
Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/?lang...
Mcafee Free Scan
http://us.mcafee.com/root/catalog.asp?ca...
Kaspersky Scanner
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner...
Microsoft Protection Scanner
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/cente...
F-Secure
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols...
BitDefender
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html...



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McAfee have a free site-advisor tool that help you prevent going to websites that may be insecure.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/

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Also breed sure you hold some humane of firewall software running.

Free Personal Firewall Software
Most free firewalls are stripped down so you purchase their licensed product.

Windows Firewall which is section of Windows XP and Vista

PCTools
http://www.pctools.com/firewall/...

ZoneAlarm
http://www.zonealarm.com

Sunbelt Personal firewall
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/home-hom...

AShampoo Personal Firewall
http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/product...
go to start, run, type msconfig

select the startup tab, afterwards uncheck adjectives.

apply ,after ok

and restart the commputer

that should disable it from starting next to your laptop.

afterwards walk online and download adaware , it might be a spyware trojan scan it near that and see what happends.

also download zonealarm trial performance its alot better.
why you don't download free AVG publication , i using it and it fundamentally apt , dance to http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/... download
"AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5" and basically scan your computer ,
after scan it AVG not delete virus automatic or it jump to sepulchre , merely move about to catacomb and click "delete" button .
Here's my detailed process.

- CarlD

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