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Found a trojan on PC

C_Ronaldo
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Ive recently found 2 trojans on my computer, 1 last week which i dealt with and 1 just now, i found them by doing an avg scan, should i be worried at all, the scan its doing at the minute has found 2 threats, in the meantime ill run ccleaner and adaware
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  • Browntoa
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    I've turned off my temp files....is that where it finds them ??

    just run AVG in Safe mode
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    safe mode, how do i do that, ive not used safe mode before

    its found them in the docs and settings folder on my c drive
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    cheers browntoa
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    The scans finished and it found them and ive deleted them both or all 3 even, ive also set the scheduler to run defrag, cleanup and avg at certain times to try and prevent it
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    safe mode is the secret to remove the stuff sometimes, depends on the infection
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