Sp2

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Min,

From a known trusted site it okay to download components.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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 .

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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