Getting rid of a virus on my computer

Hub · 25-10-2005 8:51pm #1

Can someone recommend a free programme that gets rid of a trojan virus as well as a few others!!

My AVG will only scan it, it wont delete the files

greglo23 · 25-10-2005 9:12pm

boot up in safe mode and run avg or check on avg site for specific virus removal tools ,http://www.grisoft.com/doc/112/lng/us/tpl/tpl01. if running xp make sure to turn off system restore beforehand as virii hide themselves in the protected restore area.

Voodoo2 · 25-10-2005 9:12pm

If dont want to buy software did you try searching for the file that AVG found and deleating it!

You could try Panda AV, ZoneALarm AV, Norton 30day trial etc

Hub · 26-10-2005 12:01am

If I do that then it may not be uninstalled properly

Every I download scans it, but wont remove it unless I buy something.

Surely there must be something that does this for me?

greglo23 · 26-10-2005 12:11am

whats the name of the virus?

Hub · 26-10-2005 12:42am

greglo23 wrote:

whats the name of the virus?

Trojan along with a few others

Stephen · 26-10-2005 5:21pm

That's the type of virus, not the name of it. AVG should tell you what the trojan is actually called.

Bebop · 26-10-2005 6:12pm

how do you know you have a Trojan? what is its name?
My guess is that AVG did its job by detecting and reporting the name of the virus,

stevenmu · 26-10-2005 6:21pm

It probably can't delete it because it's currently in use, pretty much any other program you find will have the same problem, even ones you pay for. Reboot the computer in safe mode and then run AVG, it should remove it. If it still can't, download and run HijackThis, it'll give you a list of all programs that run at startup, find it in the list and untick it so it won't start at next boot, restart the computer and run AVG again. If it doesn't show in HijackThis at all, there's a few other programs listed in the free software sticky that also list startup programs, one of them might see it.

Bebop · 26-10-2005 6:27pm

This is a good trojan removal guide at the AVg site
http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?4,27725,backpage=

sobberandclean · 26-10-2005 6:35pm

same happened me so i got avg pro and some how it got rid of it ..
if youre really stuck you can have mine for free. im done with it now.
avg pro way to go.
norton is shxt

Hagar · 26-10-2005 7:29pm

Download Stinger its quite for good for specific viruses.

commited · 26-10-2005 8:00pm

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner - try this

Alkers · 26-10-2005 10:16pm

Avast anti-virus is free and I've found it very good

Hub · 27-10-2005 1:59am

greglo23 wrote:

boot up in safe mode and run avg or check on avg site for specific virus removal tools ,http://www.grisoft.com/doc/112/lng/us/tpl/tpl01. if running xp make sure to turn off system restore beforehand as virii hide themselves in the protected restore area.

Tried it. Didnt work.

AVG just wont put them in the virus vault, why?

Surely someone must know of a free programme that will identify a virus and simply delete it.

All the ones I tried so far just scan and maby says register(pay) to delete

Hub · 27-10-2005 2:00am

Simona1986 wrote:

Avast anti-virus is free and I've found it very good

Can you give me a link please. Lazyness and all that lol;)

Tar.Aldarion · 27-10-2005 2:02am

Sigh you are as lazy as I;
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

timeout · 27-10-2005 9:53am

AVG offer a 14 day trial of the professional version.So download and update it. Find and remove the trojan.

It will get rid of the free version, but you can simply reload it after the virus is gone.

Getting rid of a virus on my computer

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