Do I have a trojan or is it something even more sinister?

[Teepee]

could also be the flash plugin crashing the host browser. clutching at straws now but reinstalling flash may help..

 

[Brainaddict]

could also be the flash plugin crashing the host browser. clutching at straws now but reinstalling flash may help..

I tried that, to no avail.

Running kapersky check now - it's taking a very long time.

 

[editor]

I often can't view Facebook in Firefox as it takes an age to load and often fails to load up the stylesheets. In fact, I gave up trying a long time ago and always use Chrome to view the site.

 

[madamv]

We use Kaspersky and find it works really well..

Thats all. I dont usually venture in this forum, so I shall bugger off again sharpish

 

[Brainaddict]

Kapersky has shown up one infection

Filename: C:/Windows/ehduc.cex
Threat name: Trojan.Win32.Small.aarn

This seems like progress. Now to get rid of it. Is there any way of doing it without paying for Kapersky's cleaner?

 

[editor]

Kapersky has shown up one infection

Filename: C:/Windows/ehduc.cex
Threat name: Trojan.Win32.Small.aarn

This seems like progress. Now to get rid of it. Is there any way of doing it without paying for Kapersky's cleaner?

For future peace of mind, I'd really recommend getting Karpersky. It's only a £14 or summat.

 

[Brainaddict]

This site has instructions to remove it manually (too complicated for me) and also says spyware doctor can do it so I'm going to give that a try first.

http://www.spywaredb.com/remove-trojan-win32-small/

 

[Brainaddict]

Gah, didn't realise spyware doctor only scans for free - you have to pay to get rid of anything. Maybe I will get kapersky.

 

[editor]

Gah, didn't realise spyware doctor only scans for free - you have to pay to get rid of anything. Maybe I will get kapersky.

It's worth it. Honest! Maybe you could share the £14 with flatmates/chums (that's the price of a 3 desktop licence).

 

[Brainaddict]

Can I download it online for that price do you know? On their website it is more expensive.

 

[Brainaddict]

Well Kapersky did the trick. I had to download service pack 2 to use it though - I probably should have done that ages ago but always thought I'd get hassle from microsoft for my illegal version of windows. I used softwarepatch.com and had no trouble - apart from it putting crap like messenger on my computer without asking

Thanks for all the advice people.

 

[Addy]

To be fair, if you have a dodgy copy of windows and your not keeping it up to date with service packs and security updates your always gonna be vunerable, even more so if your patching your O/S from a 3rd party website.

Maybe you should buy a Windows license (£15) or move on to a free, supported *nix O/S.

 

[Quartz]

Windows 7 RC is free for the next year.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

As addy says, a free supported *Nix maybe the way to go.

Before anyone shoots me down or this turns into a flame war, for most users Linux can be very easy to use, I say most because there can be some tweaking needed to get some windows only apps running on unix and some hardware does not have open source code to allow drivers to be produiced. But most people should be fine if installed correctly. My mum was running Ubuntu with no problems for two years. I have lost count of the amount of times I had to support her or my Dads laptops (always on a sunday innit - wanna come round for sunday dinnner boris? Oh and while you'r here can you take a look at my laptop for me).

To avoid that she got ubuntu, no problems, no malware. All I did was rename the icons, and put them on her desktop.