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Name: glorybirds
Date: July 13, 2005 at 09:54:22 Pacific
OS: windows me
CPU/Ram: 128 mb
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When posting this I put in OS windows xp it is coming up with my system ME. My sons new computer (windows xp) had McAfee free trial anti virus and it ran out. I installed AVG and it came up with 4 virus (trojan horse)3 are in the vault which show back up copy. One of them I can't get rid of.
C:\windows\system32\winupdt.exe
He has avg,spybot,adaware,mcafee
firewall,spyblaster,cwshredder, installed.
Any suggestions please.

Lisa



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Response Number 1
Name: Tufenuf
Date: July 13, 2005 at 10:05:46 Pacific
Reply:

Lisa, Run a virus scan in SAFE mode which may get rid of it.

Tufenuf


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Response Number 2
Name: glorybirds
Date: July 13, 2005 at 11:33:58 Pacific
Reply:

Okay, I did it in safe mode and nothing showed up. Now what???

Lisa


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Response Number 3
Name: nesoxochi1
Date: July 13, 2005 at 11:36:02 Pacific
Reply:

You have problem with spyware. SO maybye try this http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html


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Response Number 4
Name: glorybirds
Date: July 13, 2005 at 11:43:29 Pacific
Reply:

I have that on his computer already.

Lisa


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Response Number 5
Name: suspect52732
Date: July 13, 2005 at 11:56:48 Pacific
Reply:

Please post the name of the virus.


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Response Number 6
Name: glorybirds
Date: July 13, 2005 at 12:21:58 Pacific
Reply:

In the virus vault is
1)Trojan horse downloader small.30.bk
c:\windows\downloaded program files\aun_0011.exe
2)Trojan horse downloader.generic.cv
c:\windows\downloaded program files\installer_mediawhiz8.exe
3)Trojan horse downloader.agent.9.d
c:windows\system32\winupdt.exe.
These all say in the vault back up copy infected.
In the main scan is
Trojan horse downloader.agent.9.d
c:windows\system32\winupdt.exe.
In safe mode it doesn't show up.


Lisa


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Response Number 7
Name: jabuck
Date: July 13, 2005 at 14:50:05 Pacific
Reply:

Reboot the computer into Safe Mode then show hidden files by going to control panel>folder options >view>tick the circle beside "show hidden files and folders">apply>ok. Then go to c:\Windows\System32\winupdt.exe and right click on it>delete.

Reboot and go back and close the hidden files then delete the files in the virus vault..


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Response Number 8
Name: glorybirds
Date: July 13, 2005 at 17:45:01 Pacific
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Hello again Jabuck. I did what you said and couldn't find the winupdt.exe file. I even did a file search. I deleted the files in the vault. I ran avg again and this time it came up clean. Could it have disappeared when I ran avg in safe mode? My son loves winmx and runescape.com. Could all these problems be due to these sites?

Lisa


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Response Number 9
Name: jabuck
Date: July 13, 2005 at 19:20:15 Pacific
Reply:

Hello Glorybirds, winmx in itself is not a threat however any files downloaded on a p2p network could be infected.I'm not much of a gamer so I don't know about runescape.

The trojan could have been deleted when you run AVG from safe mode. You miight run Ewido Security Suite Free Trial and be sure to get the latest updates after you download it. Then reboot to safe mode and run it.


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Response Number 10
Name: glorybirds
Date: July 13, 2005 at 20:48:44 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks again for your help and explaining. I will do that. If I have any more problems I'll be back, if not, Thanks again.

Lisa


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Response Number 11
Name: Nigel Spike
Date: July 14, 2005 at 00:57:40 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Lisa, Hi all
Runescape is safe. My three kids have been playing it for some months, no problems.
However it is possible that support sites has downloadable cheats and other stuff, that contains malware. This is very common.

Nigel


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Response Number 12
Name: glorybirds
Date: July 14, 2005 at 07:41:47 Pacific
Reply:

I do believe he goes on those cheat sites. He lives on that website. I will just have to watch it very close. Thank You everyone for your info. I am leaving now for vacation and I am not going to think about that dumb computer once. LOL

Lisa


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Response Number 13
Name: gozelon
Date: August 6, 2005 at 18:51:04 Pacific
Reply:

I'm having a similar problem. AVG tells me I have a Trojan Horse downloader. generic CV on my desktop . I've tried to run AGV in Safe Mode to remove it but it says it can't remove it - Any suggestions?

A seprate problem is my laptop. From time to time the Anti Virus Protection is turned off. I open Norton to activate it but it doesn't. A second widow keeps popping up to tell me to turn off duplicate notices in Norton and Widows Control Center but I'm can't seem to figure out what notices. Both of these widows continually pop up as I use the lapto Both desk top and laptop are XP OS.


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