Re: I need information about how to get rid of a trojan named ´Dropper´

"scoobbs43@xxxxxxxxx" <scoobbs43@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I need information about how to get rid of a trojan named ´Dropper´

Hi Foca,

Sorry to hear of your troubles. That's a hard way to learn these
lessons. :-\

You are faced with an extremely invasive malware infection, and the
only reliable foolproof method to get back to a known clean state is
to flatten, reformat, and reinstall the OS from original media.
There are utilities that claim to clean things, but you can never be
sure they got "everythign" and even in the best case you're left with
a system that might no longer be the drone of some remote master, it
still wont' be terribly stable since the "cleaning" process soemtimes
rips out some functionality your OS really needs.

To get the data you need off, a utility disk like Sysresccd.org, a
bootable CD that runs Linux (without executing one bit of code off
your infected hard drive) and an external hard drive can be wonderful.
You'll have to learn the basics of mounting the disks and doing the
copying from the internal hard drives to the external box, but it's
not too bad. Tutorials are out there, and help is around for the
asking.

Once your new OS has been restored on your freshly formatted disks,
and all updates applied either from another machine with all the
patches downloaded, or much more easily, Windows Update from behind a
consumer home gateway device of some sort, youn run AV against the
data you backed up before restoring it back as data to your system,
and you can be on about your way.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
.

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