Trojan?

Sarahsaver

I think I must have a Trojan because I am getting spam from myself. I am surprised thet this has happened bcos I have all the (FREE) software i thought i needed - AVG antivirus doing a daily scan, zonealarm for the firewall, I have the new XP service pack and also Mailwasher. What else can i do - for free of course! ;D

Fran

SS-

This has just been posted on the Freebies board, I'm running it now so don't know how good it is or not. Worth a try though:-

Giant (on the latest post)

aussielle

Add these to your list, they're all free

ad aware se personal

spybot search & destroy

spywareguard

spywareblaster

free online scan from panda

aussielle

Bitdefender free online scan

Fran

SS-

I'm just running the "Giant" scan - it removes as well, and it's found:-

IncredFind Adware
EGroup Dialer Dialer
MemoryMeter Browser Hijacker
eGroup Adware
Remote Password Stealer Password Hijacker
Ncase Browser hijacker

These weren't picked up by AdAware or Spybot. I think it's a 3 month trial but if it really works better than the others it might be worth paying for! I still haven't got rid of my problem completely but the above sounds hopeful.

aussielle

SS-


Remote Password Stealer Password Hijacker

flippin hec  :o  don't like the sound of that

have a read of this

Fran

That's just reminded me, my son said the other week that his online game (Mir) had been hijacked and some of his hard earned heroes had been removed. He contacted the makers and got them reinstated, but the password hijacker could have been responsible for it. ???

peter_the_piper

Thanks for this Fran,
I've just found 13 spyware items including 4 keyloggers. Its scary that S&D and Ad-aware missed them. I hope it has not removed things I need, will find out later I assume. I got it to create a system point just in case.

Sarahsaver

I found LOADS of spyware, keystroke copying progs, password hijackers etc etc, AND as i suspected a Trojan. Thanks Fran for letting us know about GIANT ;D

However, I wonder am i the only one to be suspicious of free software? Do software companies make viruses so that we will get their software to remove it, then make more viruses so that we upgrade?
Are they getting info from our computers as part of the 'cleansing' process?

Im not paranoid - honest! ;D Just love a good conspiracy theory to get my teeth into!

Fran

Funny you should say that, because I was thinking the same, and also Spywaresweeper picks up a thing every day that has the same letters as the Giant thing does, something like "grac", but there is no product or company information. I've been deleting it and it's there again the next day. It seems like Giant stick their own stuff on your computer in exchange for the free trial (well that's what I think).

pingu

hi
a little window appeared on screen yesterday

virus trojan horse dropper.delf.3.l.
is found in file
c:\temp\inctal~l.exe

i ran AVG and it supposed to have cleared it

but just know i got the same message and am running AVG?

please help?

i don't download anything

only thing i have download recently was updated version of yahoo and aol messanger?