Hi all. recently AVG-free has detected a trojan horse on my machine. according to AVG the name of the trojan is proxy.aax or something and the damaged file is in windows\system32 folder. avg detects and deleted the file but when i boot my machine and run avg again the trojan is still there. so, how can i get rid of this annoying trojan horse?i searched for a trojan named proxy.aax in the web but found northing.

Hi, probably the trojan copied itself it the System Restore Folder.Follow these instructions how to delete SRF http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001111912274039?OpenDocument&src=sec_doc_nam After reboot Windows will make a new restore folder Tamtam

i tried but it didnt work. the trojan is still there after a boot.

You might try Panda it does a good job on viruses and some spyware. Then download,update and then run Ewido from Safe Mode. When you run ewido for the first time, you may get a warning "Database could not be found!". Click ok. We will fix this in a moment. From the main ewido screen, click on update in the left menu, then click the start update button. After the update finishes (the status bar at the bottom will display "Update successful") Next boot into Safe Mode Click on the Scanner button in the left menu, then click on Complete System Scan. This scan can take quite a while to run. If ewido finds anything, it will pop up a notification. We have been finding some cases of false positives with the new version of Ewido, so we need to step through the fixes one-by-one. If Ewido finds something that you KNOW is legitimate (for example, parts of AVG Antivirus, AOL, pcAnywhere and the game "Risk" have been flagged), select "none" as the action. DO NOT check "Perform action with all infections". If you are unsure of an entry, select "none" for the time being.

i think i ll try this ewido. thanks.

I just tried the Ewido free scan and it's pretty funny. To remove the infections....you HAVE to download their program....pretty fishy to me. I'll pass on that. I also think these were false negatives. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

Unless Ewido just discontined their trial version, which is up-to-date and as good as the pro version after updating it, then it works fine. You could have possibly run it before maybe? All the big dogs such as SWI,Wilders,CastleCops are using it today.