Trojan Virus??

Trojan Virus??

WTF are theey? Keep getting a pop up about it, telling me to run my anti-virus programme to deal with it, but when I do, nothing happens, any ideas people???

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Update your anti virus ?

Always worth a try

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Already done it mate, do it everyday, it's not picking it up for some reason!!

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Which anti virus are you using??

Try downloading AVG

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

or Stinger

http://www.uant.net/antivirus/stingerguide.html

We use these at work, seem to keep everything at bay

try this m8, shud clean it up

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/17/10-17-150.shtml

coolwebsearcher, deletes the trojans, worked for me

He's using AVG and updates it everyday. Its not effecting his computer at all, but slightly worrying. Its a brand new computer

Ive just ran that on his comp, and it says his system was clean :spangled:

ah well, just do what basic instinct sed the stinger

ha ha, wannadoo rang us up for some reason, i dunno why cos we are with freeserve, but anyways they told us we had a virus, nd when my dad did a scan thing we had 3 viruses and 2 trojan's

Wannadoo are freeserve now

that explains alot then

What are Trojans????

Ive ran all the links on here but they are all saying theres nothing on his comp

Google - A destructive program that masquerades as a benign application. Unlike viruses, Trojan horses do not replicate themselves but they can be just as destructive. One of the most insidious types of Trojan horse is a program that claims to rid your computer of viruses but instead introduces viruses onto your computer.
The term comes from a story in Homer's Iliad, in which the Greeks give a giant wooden horse to their foes, the Trojans, ostensibly as a peace offering. But after the Trojans drag the horse inside their city walls, Greek soldiers sneak out of the horse's hollow belly and open the city gates, allowing their compatriots to pour in and capture Troy.



Im sure a proper geek will be along shortly with sufficient information of how to rid your computer of this horse

I hope so. He's just spent loads on this comp, and no software is picking anything up

Get him to take it back

It was made specifically for him

Does it tell you what kind of trojan you have??

If it does, try running a search for it on google, no doubt that will tell you what you need to remove the blighter

Boot into safe mode - run the Anitvirus from there - that'll get rid of it.

Get a decent firewall & be careful when using P2P awful hacking programs