ACBobby Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Sorry, I wasn't sure of whether or not to post this here or in the Questions forum, so sorry if it's the wrong place. I downloaded a game and it was loaded with junk, it seems like I removed most of it, but there's still a nagging program somewhere trying to put trojans inside my two hard drives. The trojan itself is a Generic!atr and the program keeps trying to put it in the root hard drives as "autorun.inf", I've done what I can, but I just can't seem to get rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Sorry, I wasn't sure of whether or not to post this here or in the Questions forum, so sorry if it's the wrong place. I downloaded a game and it was loaded with junk, it seems like I removed most of it, but there's still a nagging program somewhere trying to put trojans inside my two hard drives. The trojan itself is a Generic!atr and the program keeps trying to put it in the root hard drives as "autorun.inf", I've done what I can, but I just can't seem to get rid of it. I'd reinstall Windows, and then scan any files you kept with various different scanners. Clamwin and AVG just to name two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I've gotten really accustomed to Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which does an excellent job. I don't know how good the realtime protection is because I've only used the trial version (only for "after-infection" scans) but I bet it would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakey Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 fedora will fix it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Because replacing windows with fischerprice unix is always the answer... Just reinstall windows and stop browsing porn/warez with IE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Antivirus is good for catching stuff on the way in...that's how i look at it. Once the nasty is on your machine though, there's only one solution. Back up your data and then erase and reinstall windows..it's the only way to be sure. All other methods are just treading water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charm_quark Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 sorry i wouldn't format. formatting should be the last option( you don't get to learn any thing).... what have you tried, have you looked in the registry???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 in my experience...once your infected....purge...it's that simple. dicking about in your registry, thinking your going to solve the problem is just an exercise in frustration. virri today are far too complex most of the time. if you find something and your able to remove it....that's the krud they wanted you to find backup format reinstall doo dah, doo dah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charm_quark Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 still i stick to my opinion... yes they are complex!, but to infect they have to be loaded into memory some how... ie before explorer is loaded, after it is loaded, running it from a startup program, running it from the scheduled tasked, run as a service, so on an so forth. so once you format it you will know where to find it,,, and you will get a better understand of your operating system.... but if you dont really care about all of this just format!! Oh and a word of caution back up all your important data before you do anything to your registry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 still i stick to my opinion... yes they are complex!, but to infect they have to be loaded into memory some how... ie before explorer is loaded, after it is loaded, running it from a startup program, running it from the scheduled tasked, run as a service, so on an so forth. so once you format it you will know where to find it,,, and you will get a better understand of your operating system.... but if you dont really care about all of this just format!! Oh and a word of caution back up all your important data before you do anything to your registry A root kit would prevent you from been able to discover any of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Its like this, when you first start you just format because you don't know what else to do. So you start learning how to remove things like viruses, spending hours picking them apart to learn how they work and how to remove them. Eventually you realize that its faster to just reinstall the system having learned that the data and the OS are seperate. However all the hours you wasted might come in useful for something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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