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Alexander
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Howdy. Well, I've got a pickle of a dilly of a problem here. I've got a Trojan Horse virus on my computer, and it's beginning to send things out of control. Does anyone have any experience with one of these things?
Alexander 
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DarkAdder
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| Posted: 26-Jun-2004 16:10 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Whatcha got for a virus killer? and is the thing masquerading as a .DLL file?
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Gangrene
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| Posted: 26-Jun-2004 16:42 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Norton Antivirus removes trojans automatically. I have never had problems with trojans because of that.
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Alexander
Heavy Horse Merc Brigade
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| Posted: 26-Jun-2004 23:06 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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I'm running Norton, and all it does is tell me that I have the virus. It attempts to place it in quarantine, but fails. I don't get it! 
Alexander
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chihawk
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| Posted: 27-Jun-2004 05:28 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Does it tell you the file name? If it does post it here.
Also, are you running a firewall? or an anti-spyware program?
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DarkAdder
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| Posted: 27-Jun-2004 17:51 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Norton is doing the same thing to me. I got Phished a while back, and routed to a bogus site. The page put a Trojan on my HD that is living as a .DLL file. Windows has a horrendous problem in that .dll files are usually left alone by virus killers.
I stopped by Symantecs web page. According to them, if you start up Winblows in Safe Mode, you can go in and remove the Trojan horses. Shut off your Windows Restore (I think it is) as Windows has a habbit of archiving and later restoring files that arent so healthy for it. Once you restart in Safe Mode, run your virus killer, and if nec cesary, manually go through and delete the file.
Otherwise, you can go to www.symantec.com and get a Removal Tool. Quite a few of the more meaner bugs are listed there, including some Trojan horses.
Luck, man. If all else fails, f-disk the whole drive and start over. Thatll teach the lil' bastard to hijack your hard drive!!
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Erenon
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| Posted: 12-Aug-2004 00:05 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Late and extremely irritating reply.
Stop using windows.
Get Linux or a Mac.
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chihawk
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| Posted: 12-Aug-2004 05:08 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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On 2004-08-12 00:05, Erenon wrote:
Late and extremely irritating reply.
Stop using windows.
Get Linux or a Mac.
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 12-Aug-2004 06:44 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Amen! Brother....
See Chihawk, I'm not the only one... 
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On 2004-08-12 00:05, Erenon wrote:
Late and extremely irritating reply.
Stop using windows.
Get Linux or a Mac.
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chihawk
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| Posted: 12-Aug-2004 14:47 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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On 2004-08-12 06:44, Sir Henry wrote:
Amen! Brother....
See Chihawk, I'm not the only one...
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Anyone that suggests to anyone else to buy a Mac should be smacked around...and anyone that does it in a dead thread should be smacked around twice....
...maybe 3 times even. 
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Erenon
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| Posted: 12-Aug-2004 20:14 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Consider myself smacked 
It's a reflex action for me.
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DarkAdder
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| Posted: 12-Aug-2004 22:51 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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no, you gotta be smacked by Chi-"damn dead threads"-hawk for it to be official.
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 13-Aug-2004 06:34 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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Pay them no mind Erenon... We know what works and what doesn't...
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chihawk
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| Posted: 13-Aug-2004 12:16 Post subject: RE: Computer Virus Problem |
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On 2004-08-13 06:34, Sir Henry wrote:
Pay them no mind Erenon... We know what works and what doesn't...
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