Help with a trojan please

[GPSMedic]

Where may one obtain this program?

Thanks

[cynthia]

windowsupdate.microsoft.com

[painttech]

You could also the cleaner at moosoft.com
It is a program that is dedicated to detecting and removing trojans and the registry entries that are there. I used it on a computer at work and it found 16 different trojans. after it was done. I ran the new microsoft anti-spyware to remove all the spyware that trojans loaded and the computer was fine again. the microsoft anti-spyware seems to be alot more thorough than adaware.

[cynthia]

Re: Re: trojan help

Originally posted by cynthia
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.

[painttech]

which one the cleaner or microsoft anti-spyware

[cynthia]

Microsoft.

[painttech]

It loads onto the hard disk at c:/programfiles/microsoftanti-spyware
It set it up in the start bar as microsoft anti-spyware and put a icon on the desktop that looks like a bullseye. Also under msconfig startup it will be in their as
gcasServ C:\programfiles\microsoftanti-spyware
It is a very nice program. It can be ran with realtime protection the with remove threats as they try to load in

[cynthia]

Well, I don't install it that directory in the swedish version - I can't find it there. Whats the name of the .exe file? Could try to do a search on my hard disk to find out where it's hidden.

[painttech]

gcasserv.exe
Is this what you downloaded?

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

[cynthia]

Sorry, I mixed that one up with this one: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=890830



Once tried to download an english version of an extra program to Windows XP - that was no success... Wonder it this one will work?

[painttech]

It's worth a try. Let me know if you get it to work and what you think. As far as the one you were referring to, i've had that happen a couple of times with downloads

[GPSMedic]

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

This is the onr I am using from Microfoft, seems to work well.........

[painttech]

@gpsmedic
that is the one that i am using too. It works better than adaware

[UncasMS]

concerning adware/virii/trojans

the following tools might be worth a try:

- spybot

- McAfee's STINGER

- HiJackThis

- Antivir (freeware version)

- RegCool (way better than regedit)



concerning browser:

i like firefox (1.0.1) very much

security is different with firefox (detailed password management, pop-up-blocker etc)

tabbed browsing reduces the amount of system resources this browser uses (open 4 instances of IE and compare the total amount of memory it needs to what firefox requires with 4 tabs)

in addition to that i also like the (ctrl + f) searchfunction much better than the separate windows IE needs; the integrated google search masque is nice as well

last but not least i like the ability to change firefox' look by using themes

all this made firefox my one and only browser

[jmet]

I would also consider the browser: Slimbrowser Made by FlashPeak. - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/