Hi I looked at a neighbours pc about a month ago and it is riddled with a Trojan that keeps coming back. AVG free keeps detecting, isolating and maybe getting rid of it? I did explain to my neighbour that formatting the hard drive would be the best option but her being lacking in money and feeding the kids is more important is putting it off. The reason is the person that sold her the pc didn't give her the windows cd. A little expensive for her to buy windows and she is not ready for linux. No time to learn something new with 4 boys. I do have the ultimatebootcd and noticed that there are few tools on it but I do not know how to use them. If there is something I there I can use I would like to help this neighbour. Thanks!!! "The meaning of life is to be happy and useful" Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama

While I like the UBCD, it's not what you need right now. If you can't find a virus scanner or trojan remover that works, which is probably the case, then I would go into the registry and find the trojan. They usually hide in HKCU or HKLM Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Run

That sounds familiar. Is there a list of trojans so I can id them or the one that avg repeatedly id's is it? Could it have scattered around and created more crap? I just don't know much about the process as just before I gave up windows(online) I got my first trojan. Formatting and using that drive for Linux cured that. Now I have windows on another machine someone gave me but it will never be online. Well the reason are well documented by many people. "The meaning of life is to be happy and useful" Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama

Ah I don't know how to find HKCU or HKLM. I know I have seen both at some point in the past but I don't know anything about it. I am googling but can't find anything that makes sense yet. "The meaning of life is to be happy and useful" Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama

OK I found I have to run regedit and look in there but how do I identify a trojan to what should be in the registry editor? I haven't looked at regedit for years and don't remember much. Will the trojan have the same name as avg identifies it as? Not that I can remember. I am on my pc right now and not the neighbours. "The meaning of life is to be happy and useful" Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama