Sp2

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Morning people,

I hope someone can help me here. I run Windows XP and yesterday i installed Microsoft SP2, as it was loading, a message came up saying i had a Trojan Horse virus and to run AVG to get rid of it, which i did but it came up clear. Does anyone know if that means i have no virus or just that AVG didn't find it?

Thanks, Min

 

[Dan O]

Have you downloaded and install the latest updates for AVG? As most likely it did not find it. You could also try another virus scanner, see: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

 

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Hello Dan O, thanks for taking the time to reply. I went to the trendmicro site to use housecall scan but it wouldn't load fully because apparently it was being blocked, in order to download i have to download ActiveX control 'xscan53.cab'; is this okay to do?
Min

 

[southernlady]

Yes, it is...there are some active x controls that are safe to download. Liz

 

[Dan O]

Min,

From a known trusted site it okay to download components.

 

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Thank you southernlady and Dan-O, your advice is much appreciated. I will go and do the downloading now; and by the way, why is it that since i downloaded SP2, my cursor moves about the screen by itself?

 

[zoombini]

More likely to be the trojan playing with ur house settings i would think.

Can u boot into safe mode and run antivirus from there? Also check the task monitor (cntl,alt.del) to see if there's any strange processes running in the background.

 

[mimo2005]

if your cursor moves by itself, the hackers is walking and playing freely with your pc , congratulation you ve been hacked !
get next time something stronger than avp like mcafee,kaspersky,nod32..
and also an anti trojan running real time like wormguard,tds3 or pestpatrol .the firewall comes free with sp2 ,so u won t need it .

 

[southernlady]

Here's the thread on the moving cursor: http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?t=269442 (thanks to AcaCandy) Liz

 

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Hi all (thanks to everyone for their input),
I have just used the housecall/trendmicro scan and it came up clean! So what the hay is going on? As for the moving cursor, that only started after i had downloaded SP2. Buggered if i know what's going on.
Min

 

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Also, zoombini, i did both things as you suggested; AVG wouldn't run in safe mode, or at least i couldn't get it to, and there was nothing dodgy running when i checked the task monitor - thanks for your suggestions.
Min

 

[mimo2005]

do you know that trojans and viruses are different ?avg fails and housecall fails because you likely have a trojan or a worm,and NOT virus . an antivirus doesn t detect all trojans and worms .
use adware se ,if that doesnt help use tds3 ,email me if you need more help how to use them .good luck

 

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mimo2005,
Thanks, i do have adaware and use it regularly; is that different from adaware se, and what is tds3?
Min

 

[southernlady]

AdAware SE is the newest version of AdAware...check your version number. And go here and download SE if it's 6.something http://www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html Liz

 

[min]

Thanks southernlady; have just downloaded the new ad-aware and it sure found a lot of stuff when i ran it, didn't say anything about a Trojan though. While it was scanning, another message popped up saying to run AVG as i have Trojan horse Downloader Keenval.N; same as the other messages i got while installing SP2.
That site you gave me for the ad-aware download, is that a reliable site to download other things from?
Min