On 5 Jan 2007 at 11:09, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 04.01.2007 David W. Fenton wrote: > >> What's not possible? Downloading from someone's personal webspace? > > > > I guess I didn't trim the quote appropriately! I was referring to > > the assertion about malware installation. > > Ah, now I understand, I had the same misunderstanding. > > I know this is completely OT, but on my dad's computer we have > installed Antivir, and for many months Antivir tells us we have got a > Trojan horse on the HD. It gives us options to remove, quarantine or > whatever, but whichever of the options we take, a few hours later the > same message pops up again. > > Research shows that the Trojan in question is in fact harmless, but > doesn't anyone know how we can get rid of the thing permanently? > > I am sure this thing got there through IE 6. Naturally we have since > installed IE 7, but the thing is still there... > > Being a Mac person myself, I am not sure what I should do...
The main thing to try is to boot in safe mode and then see if you can delete the files the Trojan is loading (assuming you've identified those). Then reboot normally and when startup complains about something missing, do a search in the registry and delete the key(s) that refer to the files you just deleted. Microsoft always forcefully warns about the dangers of editing the registry, but that can be avoided if you go to the file menu before deleting something and export the key you're deleting. If it turns out to be the wrong one and causes problems, you just doubleclick the file you exported to restore it to the registry. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
