I have a trojan problem on my pc and no one I know can help. I'm running a pretty old pc...Hewlett Packard with win98se, intel celeron 400mhz, 64mb sdram, etc. I have AVG and it alerted me of a trojan on my pc. I ran the scan and it didn't get rid of it, so I downloaded and used Ad-aware, spybot S&D, Asquared (some trojan/spyware removal program) and have ran several tests with all of them. I have gotten rid of many things but the core of the trojan is yet to be found because every so often a folder named 'autoupdate6' or something like that keeps appearing every so often in my C:WINDOWS/TEMP folder (which I keep manually deleting) and another file appears every so often in my C:WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 folder called 'randrec.exe'(which I also manually delete) ...any suggestions or thoughts of programs that may work better to get rid of this thing? Please help!

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tds-3 @ http://www.diamondcs.com.au/
after download and install, download radius.td3 @
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/tds/radius.td3
to the tds folder in program files, overwriting the older one with the new. this will update the defintions. then run a scan , this is one of the better trojan cleaners.
(a-squared is ok, but gives a lot of false detections)

Also try McAfee Stinger. It worked for me so maybe it will work for you. You can download this program at www.mcafee.com.

I doubt that you have a Trojan on your system now. More likely the items you are seeing is just left over from some of the junk installed by hardware manufactures. Do you happen to have a Sound Blaster product (sound card, CD-Rom)?

HP installs a host of such programs on their systems. Look through your Add/Remove Programs and MSCONFIG startup list and see if you have any of the following BACKWEB versions running on your system: ActivSurf, Backwebagent, hp center, HP Info Express, HP Updates, Kodak Software Updater, LDM, Logitech Desktop Manager, Sccenter, Updates from HP.

Or any other auto update programs for hardware/software you have installed.

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Hey, it's me again. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. The TDS-3 program did find a registry file (that my other programs didn't find) that was named RAT (remote access trojan or whatever) and i deleted it. However the random pop-ups when I'm online still appears. They don't appear as often when I use Firefox instead of IE tough. I downloaded Stinger and it didn't find anything. And Jack G, I have taken all of the stuff that hp puts on their computers off a long time ago, so I know that's not the problem. I had already disabled startup stuff with msconfig, removed programs, etc.
I think White hat might have a good idea because I don't think anything is on my c:/ drive; I've scanned it with everything...so maybe that RAT file in my registry isn't completely gone? I guess that's all I can do...thanks for the suggestions and input!

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