Re: How to remove trojan?

From: Br0wnbear (brownbearat_at_canadadotcom)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:13:31 -0500

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:55:02 -0800, Mike O
<MikeO@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi
>I have a trojan on one of my pcs. The anti virus program (Norman) identifies
>it as W32/Smalldoor.0 or W32/Agent.AP and quaratines the file, but cannot
>clean it. It shows I/O error on quarantining. I've empptied all temporay
>intenet files. I've serched for the file in Windows explorer without success.
>How can I go about getting rid of it. I'm running XP. Thanks in advance for
>any tips.

Mike

You need to turn on hidden and system files for starters so you can
find the file in a search.

windows explorer
Tools > Folder Options > View > turn on what you need to see.
That would help you find it.

Check MSConfig under the start up tab you will probably find the start
up option of the file in there.

Start > Run > MSConfig > Startup

After that I would recommend Dave Lipman's Solution

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

That should clean you up. Take your time it's a great learning
experience.
And as always let us know how you make out.

Cheers!
hth
John Brown
"A Computer is almost human. Except
that it doesn't blame its mistakes on
another computer."

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