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need help asp new antivirus found trojan

HI
I have uninstalled mcafee as I didnt like it and installed kaspersky which has instantly found Trojan-PSW-Win32.sinowal.bw the file is named as MSAVC.EXE is this a bad trojan or is it to do with windows which save my passwords. I have found a site called prevx1 which says it can get rid of it as if I do it myself I may delete a good file which I need.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks Jen

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  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
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    kaspersky released a fix for this on the 15th jan 07, so update the program
  • JENJEN30X
    JENJEN30X Posts: 468 Forumite
    Hi
    It said it was up to date I did the prevx1 and it worked great then kaspersky found another the same name in common files so it has neutralized this one. So glad I got rid of mcafee all our downloads were scanned and nothing ever found. Just goes to show how careful you have to be.
    Thankyou
    Jen
  • Ive just had the same thing with norton. I dont like norton but it was included with my new computer, and it supposed to have improved greatly so I thought i'd give it a go.

    No probs at all according to norton but my pc was doing odd things so I uninstalled it and reinstalled AVG. AVG found 2 trojans! Healed and deleted, but they keep regenerating :rolleyes:


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  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,619 Forumite
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    you need to scan with AVG in safe mode, hit F8 on boot up
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  • urban_spirit
    urban_spirit Posts: 1,834 Forumite
    Cheers browntoa, will do that icon14.gif
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  • Kaspersky seems to of got rid of them totally it found two more later last night and deleted them they were in the system files. I scanned again today to double check and all is ok. I also found my emails have been changed to go to a different server but I have corrected this now.I will be definately keeping this antivirus and the prevx1 I will keep as well. In my case they are very well worth it.
    Jen
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