Re: Need something to remove Download. Trojan or pesky spyware?? Plz Help!

From: Kevin (warhawk_at_nospam.shaw.ca)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 07:48:18 -0600

Welcome to the wonderful world of browser hijackers. First a couple quick
questions. When you used Ad-aware and spybot, did you first update their
signature files to the latest available before running? If no, then do
that, if yes, then what is the new home page? That will tell us a lot about
what hijacker you are dealing with. 

-- 
Kevin
"Annoyed" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:256d401c46184$d2c32c00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hey I really need your help.  I think I've got this thing
> called Download. Trojan on my computer.  I ran my virus
> scanner, and it said I had it.  In the first display of
> it, the scanner "action taken: clean failed: delete
> failed :access denied."  In the second display of the
> trojan, the scanner "action taken: clean failed:
> quarantine succeeded." I was then only able to delete the
> file which was called javacypt.exe (where the scanner said
> the Download. Trojan was located) I thought that would of
> gotten rid of it, but I still have the effects of it on my
> computer: changed home page that won't change back,
> annoying pop ups, and when u click on links sometimes they
> take you somewhere else even bad sites--sometimes the bad
> sites just come up out of nowhere! It's horrible! I've
> downloaded freeware Ad Aware and another program called
> Spybot: Search and Destroy.  These programs have found
> cookies and spyware on my computer, but I still have these
> effects.  I am at a loss as to what to do.  I was
> wondering if there was a patch I could download for the
> Download. Trojan in case I did not get rid of it or to get
> rid of some spyware that is messing up my computer. Please
> Help.  Thanks so much in advance!

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