Help with a trojan please

[Junkie_ball]

I have been infected with a virus called BackDoor-BDD now my virus scanner (Mcafee) says its deleted the virus altough every time i fire up internet explorer it triggers the virus again.

I have spend hours on the net looking for a way to rid myself of this problem with no success.

Any one in the forums had this problem and if so any help as it's driving me net with all the adware it's creating. This virus also keep creating a program ISTsvc with i have a tool to get rid of altough the 50 or so registry items it creates is very enoying when you have to delet them every time i go on he net.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmet]

I would reformat the PC. But that's just me.

[Mig$y]

Do a Google search for "Trojan Remover"

[admin]

Might this article help?

http://au.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=126448

Also linked to is this article, which turns off system restore in case the infected files have gotten to the system restore cache (which sounds like the problem in your case):

http://vil.nai.com/vil/SystemHelpDocs/DisableSysRestore.htm

[zwan]

i had that trojan .. i downloaded the program called " the cleaner" from moosoft.com and it found it and other trojans and wiped them out

[tony7914]

hi there!
there are 3 programs you can get that are free and do a very good job of keeping stuff like that off of your PC "spybot search and destroy" "spywareblaster" and "adawareSE personal" spybot and adawareSE do the actual removals and spywareblaster works in conjunction with spybot to keep the stuff off of your system. another good program to have on your PC is called "HijackThis" you can get it from this site http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

you can use hijackthis to make a log file and post it on a different forum that is very good at helping you to remove scumware and such.
hope this helps!

[fifty]

get rid of IE. Run firefox.

[jmet]

I used FireFox. I didn't like it. I use Slimbrowser.

http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/

[Junkie_ball]

Thanks for all the replies ill give them a go! Sorry for the late reponse my usual internet connection has pretty much been impossible to use since the trojan!

Ill post back the result of the above suggestion hopefully when the trojan has been removed and if not when i get the use on another machine with internet connection!

[GPSMedic]

Hey jmet.....I was thinking about switching to FireFox, have a "guru" friend that swears by it, would you be willing in giving me your pros and cons between Firefox and Slimbrowser?
Thanks!!

[jmet]

FireFox is good, don't get me wrong. It just wasn't for me. I didn't keep it long enough to give you a comparison with Slimbrowser. One reason I picked Slimbrowser over FireFox is, tabbed browsing. By default Slimbrowser automatically creates a new tab for every link or URL you type in manually. FireFox doesn't unless you specify it to.

[GPSMedic]

OK...cool...thanks jmet, once again you came through with the info I needed.....I am in debted to you!

[jmet]

You're Very Welcome! (Just pay off my house and will call it even) lol

[zwan]

trojan help

microsoft has an awesome spyware program and works awesome ... check that out to see if it helps.

[cynthia]

Re: trojan help

Originally posted by zwan
microsoft has an awesome spyware program and works awesome ... check that out to see if it helps.

Saw that installed itself on my PC - but where can I find it? I have searched around but I can't find where you launch it.