Warning about trojan horse

C_Ronaldo

ive just had a warning about a trojan horse(i think it said something about a file had been affected), if i run adware and avg would it remove it,

oldwiring

Source of warning- Av program or from elsewhere? I'd be wary if it came in an email, especially if I had opened it, and wary of following instructions.

Can you paste a copy? Some of our educated might be able to advise further.

C_Ronaldo

it didnt come in an email, i think the warning came via adware, a box came and said something a file was infected with a trojan horse, i cant paste a copy as i say it came in a box and i clicked ok and ive run adware and avg is running as we speak

Browntoa

might be one of the "false" notifications that try to get you to download a bit of software to "fix" the problem. Ignore it and just run your normal anti-virus and adaware to check

if it keeps popping up then come back and I'll give you more advice

Browntoa

you often get similar screens to one of these

C_Ronaldo

i ran avg and it had found 4 baddies including the trojan horse, and i put them into the virus vault and i deleted it

Browntoa

if it keeps coming back then run AVG in Safe mode and delete them

garcia

Was it attached to winrar by any chance? I remember finding one of those baby's on someones comp. Turns out they'd downloaded a cracked version of winrar and it was on there.