AVG has said it found a Trojan Horse on the computer. It didn't wanna remove/heal. It was located in the temporary files. I deleted it. I couldn't. I restarted the computer. It was gone. I did another AVG virus scan to make sure. It found another Trojan Horse (Generic 8.EJI) in the same folder. I couldn't heal/remove it. I couldn't delete it. I had AVG remove the threat as a power user. One of the two was removed. I did a virus scan of just the C-drive. It didn't find anything. I did another entire scan, it found the very same threats again. I had AVG remove them by force. It said the computer could crahs by it. It did. It crashed. I couldn't do anything anymore. Screen froze. I turned computer off by button. I turned it on again. It asked for safe mode. I didn't. Of experience, I got that that just ruins everything (at least with the old desktop.) I went to the temporary files folder. It is empty. So I assume that the threats must be removed. I don't dare do another virus scan anymore, though. tears Every day at 12:00 it does one automatically, so I'm scared to shit already that it'll find something again. The computer's working fine. I don't get it. I'm scared. :'( I don't wanna loose anything. I cannot afford to loose the laptop in the middle of my exams.
Anyone who could save my @$$?
I forgot to say
When ever you put a USB stick on your computer SCAN IT EVERY TIME before you open it.
Well, I don't even have a virus scanner. If you keep to what Sera Eris says you shouldn't have much of a problem. That said, a Trojan isn't really a problem since it doesn't propagate like a virus does. As long as you keep any sensitive information off your pc, you know, like bank numbers and the like, you're pretty much fine. And if you think that someone is hijacking your pc, unplug the network cable when you're not using it. But really, the odds of that happening are pretty slim, and I doubt that one Trojan, especially one labeled as Generic, could do that.
I'm very careful with what I download every time. And I have deleted the Norton, only keeping my AVG, but it still found a Trojan horse PSW Generic 8.EJI in that Temp folder. So that's surely not the reason.
So, basically, I could just continue working with the computer without really worrying?
A generic trojan can be an application that gives random combination of numbers for programs' cracks for example
if you download the Photoshop, since it is a licensed program the piratically version comes along with its crack that little file is a generic trojan which is not harmful for the comp.
so if you have download any program lately check if its crack is the file name of the trojan your anti-v found.
what you surely have to do is to copy your work into DVDs
as for Norton since it is the biggest bullshit ever created it is possible that it hasn't been uninstalled completely!
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Trojan-horse-PSW-Generic-t84652.html
that can help!
when ever you have a problem with a virus just google its name.
do you play games on Facebook??
it seems to be a spyware and nothing more so it is probably from such pages as facebook-GAME pages or cursor/smilies pages and such!
Yeah, I do play games on Facebook. Farmville, and such. I found it quite odd that I got a threat in the first place, since I'm always so careful with everything and don't enter nasty sites or such. Thank you for your help!
it is not about nasty sites!
it is about online games those are downloading spyware to your computer.
that link I gave you it is quite old but if you scroll down there are newer topics on that trojan in that forum.
Buy the latest virus protection package and install right away. It should fix up some or all of your PC problems, and do other helpful defence maintenance for you.