Trojan found

[Bones]

PCGuard anti virus has reported that it has found a trojan on my system. I did a full scan and 3 infected files were deleted. Did another manual scan the next and 6 more were found .

Can anyone recomend a good (free???) utility/product that can remove infected files.

BTW shouldn't my constantly updated antivirus software have protected my system from such infections?

Thanks

 

[roddy]

I've often found when your current AV software finds a virus, it's good to download a different copy of a AV software and run a full scan again it's amazing what extra is found.

I have always found Avast and microsofts own 'defender' programme pretty good both are free

regarding the trojan if the AV has identified what trojan you have do a google search to find how best to remove it, there is good on-line guides if your not to comfortable messing about with the PC

 

[Blackal]

Spybot or Adaware (or run both in succession)

Al

 

[Dansin]

You could also try Malwarebytes and Trend Micro's online scanner. If it keeps returning you'll need to run your A/V after you've turned off system restore and rebooted. Once done re-enable sytem restore, reboot and run A/V again to make sure it's gone.

 

[Bones]

You could also try Malwarebytes and Trend Micro's online scanner. If it keeps returning you'll need to run your A/V after you've turned off system restore and rebooted. Once done re-enable sytem restore, reboot and run A/V again to make sure it's gone.

I have just done a scan and 4 more copies were found, all in the system restore directories so turning off system restore makes sense.

Thanks for all the replies. Spybot is now running and I will be followed by adaware. I will be downloading and running the other suggestions later. Can't do any harm methinks and one of them may resolve the problem for good.

Thanks again all

 

[Aidan1150]

Trend Micro Housecall takes a while to run, but is very thorough. Well worth the time though, and free.

 

[STUBBS]

Trend Micro Housecall takes a while to run, but is very thorough. Well worth the time though, and free.

thats what we used on the kids pc when we needed to debug