Re: Help with recurring Frethog worm

From: "JD" <erehwon@xxxxxxxxxxx>

| Many thanks to both responders. I am overwhelmed by the seriousness of the
| issue--and the proposed solution.
| I wonder why neither CA Anti-virus nor Windows Defender are able to identify
| or remove the worm. Both are run several times a week and always come up
| clean.
| Do you suppose that if I had the external hard drive connected while running

Windows Defender targets adware/spyware NOT viruses and worms.

You NEED to scan the drives.



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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


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