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Trojan virus detection:

  • 12-06-2016 7:47pm
    #1
    JumpShivers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 580 ✭✭✭


    I accidentally visited a dodgy website after clicking on a link designed to mislead people with one misplaced letter. The website was impersonating a well-known news outlet.
    Like baords.ie instead of boards.ie.
    The wifi on my machine went down and it acted really slowly with a lot of lag. I reset it and turned it back on.
    It's behaving fine now, but I'm worried I may have contracted a virus.
    If this is a trojan virus does that mean it is invisible to my McAffee scanner (just like Homer and the Horse Of Troy).
    Should I just restore laptop to a previous point, like 24 hours ago or something?


    Thanks Everyone.


Comments

  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    You may be totally clear, but if you want to be safe an "Offline Scan" with something like a Kaspersky Rescue disk will find any rootkits that are invisible to your antivirus.

    Really though its not Trojans that are the big danger now but Crypto-Locker clones.


  • #3
    TheWarChicken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭TheWarChicken


    Malware bytes will do the job too, it has a free trial so you can get rid of it without paying. Good program, would recommend it.


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