Because of my brothers excessive porn watching, I have a Trojan (and the net-worm) on my computer. My dad and I have tried many removal programs and nothing removed it. SO, we're thinking of reformatting the computer.
Any tips on what I could do to remove it so I don't have to reformat this damn thing?
Edit: I have the trojan downloader, trojan spy, backdoor trojan, and the PSW trojan. :(
Post edited at 11:14 am on May 25, 2008 by Elephantis
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Uh... there are a lot of "trojan viruses"... I assume you've tried Norton, maybe give Kaspersky a try.
or google the name of the virus and get a removal kit
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boot your computer into safe mode and use msconfig to shut themdown (any programs that aren't supposed to be on the computer) then scan for that mess.
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This is one time when you need to pull out even with a trojan.
Ok, back on topic. Try booting into safe mode (hold F8 on Windows boot), then remove it.
If that fails try booting into a Linux Live-CD and deleting from there. Since you have the filename, you probably have the location.
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