My PC has a virus or a trojan?
May 20th, 2010 | 
Author: Okay so do the last few days ‘Windows defender has been popping up an telling me that I have a threat to my PC, and every time this happened, it opened up Internet Explorer. Obviously IE was a stupid advert for a casino or something along that line.
So today I decide enough is enough and logged on to find just my volume control, network and ‘safely remove device’ icon in the system tray, having no side bar (windows vista) and every time I am trying to access a programme on the desktop or wherever it comes with an error message saying something a long the lines of me needing to affiliate it with a programme in the control panel.
I decided to download AVG and saw I had a programme called ‘downloader. swizzor’.
Now, I have researched it and I came across a version ‘B’ & ‘AF’, AVG has not told me which one it is. It was contained in the Virus Vault until I deleted them. Since then I have rebooted my PC several times, and my sidebar, system tray icons or sidebar have not appeared.
I don’t know what to do, & since I downloaded AVG the ‘Windows Defender’ & IE pop-pups have disappoint.
so, if any body has ANY help, I would be so thankful!
D: im really quite scared, could the virus get worse and attack my actual system?
Okay, thanks for the advice. I have removed the trojan’s and virus’, as far as I know.
I used Malwarebytes & AVG. But I’m still having the problem of accessing my programmes,
I researched it and I think its do do with a registry?
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Google for AVG, it’s a free antivirus and it’s really good (I prefer it over bitdefender and I have bitdefender 2010 )
AVG was a good move. I’d also use Malwarebytes, which catches things AVG might miss. The spyware might have damaged some software, or just changed settings.
Do you have the CDs that your computer came with? Or, do you have a support number with the computer company that made your computer? These can help you repair whatever was reset or damaged. Another road is to Google ‘Vista Sidebar Settings’, etc to help you look for controls for these, and maybe registry settings.
A Trojan virus is faulty computer program that can infect remote computers by changing the desktop or deleting important files. Generally called a Trojan Horse, it appears as a legitimate file or software from a trusted source, therefore tricking users into opening it or downloading it. Take action and protect your personal computer files by learning to delete this Trojan virus.
Here is more infomation and removal guide:
http://trojan-horses-killer. com
Trojan horses are designed to allow a hacker remote access to a target computer system. Once a Trojan horse has been installed on a target computer system it is possible for a hacker to access it remotely and perform operations. The operations that a hacker can perform are limited by user privileges on the target computer system and the design of the Trojan horse itself.
Operations which could be performed by a hacker on a target computer system include:
Use of the machine as part of a Botnet (e. g. to perform Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks)
Data Theft (e. g. passwords, security codes, credit card information)
Installation of software (including other malware)
Downloading of files
Uploading of files
Deletion of files
Modification of files
Keystroke logging
Viewing the user’s screen
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