John, I used Malware Bytes as Michael says and ComboFix. Specifically, Combo fix is a great tool for removing all types of spyware etc from your PC.
As for finding it out, I knew that I had something on there as the PC was running so damned slow. Dave C -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Weller Sent: 09 December 2009 09:55 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] Replacement for Windows Update? Hi Dave, If AVG and Microsoft failed to spot it how did you find it and what did you do to eliminate it? John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > > Joel, > Sounds like a problem I had a while ago. The slowness in > "identifying" the hardware was down to a Trojan I had picked > up "Virtumonde" > "http://www.virtumonde.net/"; allied to something called "SmitFraud". > > The AVG and Microsoft software didn't pick them up. Removing > both of these resulted in a scan time for updates of 2 > minutes as opposed to 2 hours. > > Dave Crozier [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/8e8eb6a386564072ba61231ab7f30...@develop ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
