Computer help please?

Question

I have posted this Many times and I am aware of this. Just rounding up how many people say the same thing. But anyways, yeterday my friends gaming account got hacked and lost everything. I'm guessing the hacker was his friend long ago and told him to download something. He did and I guess he got a Trojan. The hacker uploaded a picture of his things that he stole from the gaming account on "imageshack.us" After that, my friend had sent me the picture. I'm now nervous because I clicked the link and will I have a Trojan if the hacker put one on the picture? Can he even put a Trojan on the picture? Also, I have avg and spybot and scanned atleast 4 times. Yes I updated them but I haven't found anything. It says my computer is clean but just making sure, does my computer have a Trojan?

Answer 1

Okay, if you didn't download the picture, and saw it on the website, you should be fine. As along as you don't download the photo, you won't be infected with a Trojan.

Answer 2

Read the following article, it talks about trojans and how to get rid of them.

Answer 3

to be positive u might want to do a scan in safe mode, some trojans and other malware can "go under the radar scanner" as they trick the scanner into thinking it is a legitimate remote desktop connection.

to know for sure scan in safe mode.

just restart your computer, mash f8 f10 or f12 (not sure which your pc will be) in the bios page. select start in safe mode without networking and run your scanner.

i dont hink you will have any malware as image shack arnt stupid enough to not scan their images as they are being uploaded.

also the image would reciure a script to automaticaly download the trojan from a site that hosts the malware. which i know for a fact you cant do on imageshack or anyother image hosting website for obvious security reasons.

in short U DONT, but if u wanna check just boot in safemode and run avg.

your friend should have a good firewall and antivirus in the first place and this would have never happened to him, prevention is much easier than treatment

good luck:-)

Answer 4

suggestion: Use capsa to analyze the historic data packet, then you may get a satisfactory result on the problem. Capsa download URL: http://www.etherlook.com/?promid=ask