Thursday, October 1, 2009

Trojan in windows file!?

Ran scan on computer picked up two trojan's both in my system volume information so it says. Access is denied so cant get in. Tried removing with spybot, mcafee, and adware remover with no look. Can anyone suggest what to do next iam at wits end. Running computer in safe mode till i find something to remove them. Any help appreciated.



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That would indicate that Malware may still be lurking in your system restore volumes so it would be in your best interests to disable system restore, reboot then re-enable system restore when you log back on. What this does is protects you from reloading the malware should you ever need to do a system restore.



Many anti-virus products cannot remove viruses from system restore thus the reason for clearing out possible infected points. For reference to this, see the link below:



http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorial...



There are several ways to disable system restore but the easiest is to go to Control Panel, System, System Restore tab and tick the box to "Turn off system restore on all drives", click Apply, click OK and reboot. Follow the same steps when you log back on to re-enable system restore by removing the tickmark.



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Edit to respond to added details



Not sure about the flickering, possible you might have had a brief power surge or if you were doing something while running a new security scan, it may have caused it. If your scan comes back clean, then the malware was in the system restore volumes. By purging the old restore points, it cleared them out.

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