Why do I keep getting it?

Question

Every time I use the Yahoo anti-virus I get a Trojan from Zuten.

It won't go away and I want to get rid of it.

Please help?

Answer 1

A lot of free services plant their own spyware because they want to track your activity and on-sell the data they accumulate. Yahoo is a commercial enterprise making money out of this sort of thing just like MSN, Microsoft, BigPond. They want to wipe out other peoples' spyware and plant their own. That's why I log in with a false ID and never stay logged in, and don't browse with Internet Explorer!

Yahoo's programming is not good. I suspect they use Microsoft's proprietary script which is leaky, because that would explain why a lot of the site's functions won't work with a secure browser like Opera, and you are encouraged to use a leaky one like Internet Explorer. This means their sites are hackable and could become a target for others to plant Trojans on.

To be clear - I use the Yahoo site as my home page - it is as good as any other big company site - just no better. Use antivirus and antispyware products from independent sources:

Zone Alarm

AVG

Comodo

Ad Aware [lavasoft]

Avira

Avast

GRC

EMCO

Answer 2

http://free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afe

try avg, it's free and it's really good. anti virus.

Answer 3

First thing to do would be find out what exactly what the Zuten thing is,

google should help you find a virus database.

Sometimes anti-virus give false reports on harmless stuff which you can usually tell it to ignore.

Mine use to freak out over gamespy.

Hope this helps.

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