Re: trojans

Defender was turned off. I thought I wasn't supposed to have real-time
protection on since I have the McAfee.
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Sincerely, Abby


"DL" wrote:

Generally anti virus apps are not good, but improving, on detecting malaware
Obviously McAfee didnt detect it
It is often neccessary to use 2 or 3 malaware apps, MS Defender being one.
SpyBot & Adaware, free versions, are others often reccommended. You have to
explicitly run them, they dont run in the background.
I would have expected MS Defender to block the instalation of this trojan,
it didnt.

"Abby" <Abby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:648E2270-6961-4B92-918E-78023843DB2F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I failed to give the name of the Trojan my computer was infected with. It
is
Trojan:JS/Agent.FA Since Window's Defender says that it was successfully
removed, is there anything else I need to do?
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Sincerely, Abby


"Abby" wrote:

I just picked up a Trojan somewhere. Window's Defender removed it. Now
I'm
wondering what I did wrong. A week or so ago, I got a pop-up claiming
that I
had no virus protection and saying that "they" were going to do a scan.
I DO
have virus protection (McAfee), so I knew this wasn't legit. I had a
hard
time shutting it down, but I did. I did three scans in Safe mode
(McAfee,
Defender and Super AntiSpyware Free) and found nothing. I am wondering
if
this Trojan came from that and just wasn't detected until now. If not,
could
it have come from an Email attachment? My friends are always sending me
forwarded things which I enjoy. I do have email scanning enabled, and
only
open ones that say "No unsafe attachments detected". Is it okay to open
these forwarded items, or should I not? I have Window's Vista Home
Premium.
Thank you for your time.
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Sincerely, Abby



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