Trojan horse PHP/MPack.B

[ELIMINATOR]

My free AVG has found this, twice. Once is embedded, the other is just present. AVG has not removed it.

How can it be removed? What exactly is it doing?

 

[Dickieboy]

Did AVG give you a choice to , Remove/Delete/Heal and then say that it could not do any one of them when you tried? It happened to me with a similar type thing about year ago and the best solution I could find short of a reboot or buying a spyware program, was a six month subscription to the full version of the online 'Panda Virus Scan' about a fiver and worked a treat.
Prior to that I had tried every freebie version of everything I could think of and none of them worked.

Edit

I bought the kids their own laptops after that.

 

[redcastle]

Try

turning off system restore (control panel, system, system restore)
reboot the pigdog in safe mode. Keep hitting the F8 key while its first booting, if you get to the windows screen your too slow, if it gives you a boot option choose the hard disk, keep hitting F8 and you will get a lovely black and white screen, choose safe mode.

now scan and see if AVG not only finds it but deletes it

restart normally, check all ok and switch system restore back on

worth a go joe

 

[ELIMINATOR]

AVG update between opening the thread and now. Rescanned seems to have gone??????????

I'll scan again.

Redcastle, sounds like heavyweight instructions to a computer numpty like me.

 

[Dickieboy]

Have a look in the AVG Virus vault could be safely tucked up in there.

 

[(RIP) Proff]

AVG has done this one or two times to me, it does tuck them up safely and also sends them to Grisoft, then next update or so, it's suddenly dedded
Seems we free users are the early warning system for new Virii.
according to norton crapafee its a new virus thats just been cracked
Grisoft makesit's money cracking and selling curesto other AV prog suppliers
Thats one reason I've had AVG for seven years
I MIGHT one day fork out [PAY } for the super duper version.

 

[centaur]

Same as Proff. Once I'd sen the recommend for AVG (free) and binned Norton after the subscription renewal came due, I've stayed with it 'cos it does the job so well and so unobtrusively. Had it for 6 years now, despite trying some other free A/V's like Avast, have found it to be easier to use imo.

P.S. I've only had one 'nasty' that AVG couldn't either heal or bin, but as it gave me the location/s of the file, I was able to delete it/them manually without problem. Turned out to be a corrupted Java file.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Scanned again. No threats found, nothing in the virus vault, nothing has been healed.

All's OK in the ELIMINATOR world

 

[mr moto]

i used the panda antivirus ,paid version up until i got infected with something that really screwed up my pc, the panda anti virus could find nothing, even after several scans so i downloaded the free AVG software ,ran it and it found and fixed the problem at the first attempt . panda is gone and i am now using AVG . why pay for it when you can get better for free ? .