Any other virus protection aside from norton?

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:45 pm

Is there a way to quickly delete a trojan horse virus completely?. My norton could'nt because it said access to file denied.

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:02 pm

Oh dear. The chickens of leechery have come home to roost.

First, reboot and run Norton in safe mode.

If that doesn't do it, then have a look at HiJackThis which is pretty good at spotting and removing malware. It does require you to make some informed decisions about what to remove, which I realise is not what you're after, but since you got yourself into this hole...

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:06 pm

Me get myself into the hole?, I'll be honest I don't even know where it got downloaded from.

fmx · Post by **fmx** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:27 pm

a hole's a hole, whether you fall in it, get pushed in it, walk into a cave, or someone just drops something all around you so you're practically buried... :\

try what rogerborg's suggested above, or try out other antivirus programs like mcafee, AVG or Avast and see if they'll sort it out for you

hope everything turns out ok for ye'

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:01 pm

a lot of times when you get a virus very very bad, the only real way to get rid of it is to reinstall windows, the key is protection from that original virus. I usually go with AVG since its pretty good and well..... uh FREE

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:08 pm

What does safe mode do for me?.

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:14 pm

Alright I quarantined two files, they're both dll's what others should I look for related to them, and can I safely delete them?.

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:20 pm

Starts your computer with minimal resources so the virus/trojan (hopefully) wont start and Norton would be able to delete it.

And please, use: AVG Free, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware 2008, A-Squared Free, and get a good firewall... one that's great (and free) is: Comodo Firewall Free

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:23 pm

Is norton actually not that good?.

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:57 pm

It's slow.. but it's fine I guess. When I had Norton I also used those programs I listed alongside it.. just in case. Now I'm using Kaspersky.

The Onslaught · Post by **The Onslaught** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:20 am

Norton is the scum of the anti virus world

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:22 am

Squirrels are stealing my hubcaps.

JP · Post by JP » Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:23 am

don't forget about good ol' system restore backing up all those pesky viruses for you xD

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:17 pm

So if I delete the files system restore will put them right back in?.

jam · Post by **jam** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:59 am

Real men don't use anti-virus tools.

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Any other virus protection aside from norton?

Any other virus protection aside from norton?

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