Trojan removal please?

Question

Ive been getting a lot of crappy answers and I need someone to tell me the right one. Well anyways, this guy told my friend to dl this program called activex or something and I guess it had a Trojan on it. That person hacked my friends gaming account and myspace. He sent me a picture that the hacker sent to my friend and my friend sent it to me. The hacker uploaded it from "imageshack.us" and I clicked the link that the hacker sent to my friend then my friend sent to me. Can this pic be infected with a Trojan horse? I have avg free 8.0 and spybot, will these two remove the Trojan if I got one from the pic?

Answer 1

Not trying to flame anybody but if the only way to get rid of malware is to reload then we're all in DEEp $H!! . Try using a quality product like Kaspersky, ESET Nod 32 / smart security, Or Trend Micro. Also the PROPER way to remove malware is to turn off system restore (where spyware can hide) Re boot in safe mode then run your scans. Then reboot normally re run your scans and turn your system restore back on.



BTW

Trend Micro has a FREE online scanner called Housecall.

Kaspersky has a Free scan as well as a Free 30day trial.

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Answer 2

Activex is a web application that millicious programs can be written in. As long as you don't download the photo it probably won't infect your computer. You should be safe.

Answer 3

Yes. That is possible. If your friend is using Internet explorer.

You can try to disable all the activex plugin except the essential.

You should also reset the security in IE to highest.

Also disable install on demand and third party browser extension.

Enable "empty temporary folder when IE close"

Spybot is a free anti-spyware tool that that contains many features to

immunize your computer against some spyware.

It modifies Internet Explorer to block a lot of the bad stuff known to Spybot.

There is a second layer of protection for IE that blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.

Spybot Resident a tool which check permanently running application to protect your system.

Spybot Resident TeaTimer is a tool which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated and immediately detects known malicious processes.

It giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future:

You can set TeaTimer to be informed when the process tries to start again automatically kill the process or generally allow the process to run

There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.

In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either Allow or Deny the change.

Spybot host file locking is a tool which locks the hosts file to prevent unauthorized changes.

Locking the hosts file will prevent most hosts hijackers (even unknown) from doing harm;

Locking the IE settings will prevent other users of your computer to change your preferences.

Spybot ActiveX is a tool to display a list of installed ActiveX applications it will display a green checkmark in front of ActiveX applications known as legitimate,

and a red sign in front if applications known as illegitimate

Spybot process list is a tool displays a list of all currently running processes,

including some information about them. It also allows you to kill some processes

Spybot System startup tool lists all programs that are started at Windows startup.

If those items are in the database coming with Spybot, it will display some more information about them.

It also allows you to disable (and enable) items, as well as delete them, change them or insert new items.

Spybot system internal is a registry cleaner that fix error in windows registry.

Make full use of spybot advance features to protect the PC.

Answer 4

unfortunately the best way to get rid of a trojan is to backup all your important files and wipe out your system. my bro gets viruses on his comp all the time so i have to go to his house and re-install windows every couple of months. apparently even online girls carry diseases

Answer 5

You should use an antivirus program and antispyware software, because your computer is now infected with viruses and/or spyware.

Here you have more information on computer security, as well as good and free programs that you can download into your computer:

The  website list top ten the best and newest anti-spyware in 2007.

http://toptenantispyware.com/

All are safe and can be trusted and you can download one.

Answer 6

Spybot may get rid of it,run both though. Look closer at the spelling of the link,it is spelled a little different to fool you.

added. If your spelling is correct it may be legit,I was thinking of one that adds an A and is .org. Sorry if I confused you,but running scans won't hurt anyway.

Answer 7

Don't open the pic.

Answer 8

contact myspace and download this asap: http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-F...

get full version if you can trial here: http://www.grisoft.com/ww.download-trial when your done you can buy it or get free version here: http://free.avg.com

Answer 9

Yeah just update the definitions of the freeware, and run a scan on your system. A combo of AVG and Spybot are sufficient to get rid of all the infections. If not try to run your system in safe mode and run a scan on your system using these individually.

Answer 10

Read the article below. It will surely help you.