Trojan hackTool

Deliverance

Ran Antimalwarebytes on the computer there yesterday and found these... 'Trojan Hacktool' and 'Trojan downloader' as 2 malicious medium threats. Removed them easily enough using the aforementioned program.

My other programs like avg did not detect them! I ran the computer in safe mode with system restore disabled and ran the above anti program again and found no problem as a precaution. No threat was detected as such.

It makes me wonder how many folks out there are using their computers with programs that might not be picking up these potential threats? Are they real threats? Are the general prevention programs picking them up? Or should folks be aware that they need that bit of extra protection that I took the time to run on my computer? Prevention is better than cure and all that?

It seems to me that lots of people get viruses because they don't have proper protection from the shop as an initial buy with the bundled antivirus software offered. Am I right on this?

xprepairs

Out of curiousity you might try Avast free and allow it do a bootscan on reboot to see what else AVG is missing:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/
You can always quarantine the files and after reboot if your PC runs fine, then delete them in avast and you can then uninstall Avast if you like. You cannot run 2 AV's at the same time on a PC as they will conflict.

Avast has much better real-time protection than AVG

ActorSeeksJob

Don't have two anti-virus programs installed, it can still cause a lot of issues

xprepairs

ActorSeeksJob wrote: »

Don't have two anti-virus programs installed, it can still cause a lot of issues

>>>then delete them in avast and you can then uninstall Avast if you like. You cannot run 2 AV's at the same time on a PC as they will conflict.<<<

ActorSeeksJob

Its not just about having two AVs running that causes problems, even installing two AVs can cause a series of issues like BSODs

You should be more careful with your advice, especially when you don't know what you are talking about

xprepairs

ActorSeeksJob wrote: »

Its not just about having two AVs running that causes problems, even installing two AVs can cause a series of issues like BSODs

You should be more careful with your advice, especially when you don't know what you are talking about

Sorry if I ruffled your feathers, BUT, I have been doing PC repairs for 9 yrs now and would never intentionally steer someone wrong. I have used Avast many times to extract problems (never had a problem with it) on PC's and my next tool of choice is Unhackme (I did notice your tool of choice is Combo-fix, just a matter of preference I suppose) . That usually nips it in the bud.
I repair PC's for a living and don't mind passing my knowledge to people that cannot afford to take their PC into a shop. I like the last part of your quote, That I don't know what I'm talking about...that made me chuckle