Unfortunately, a number of weeks ago I acquired a virus which is called Trojan Horse, when I ran my A.V.G. virus scan it showed up and I am waiting now for someone to come and remove it, as It is not possible for me to do the job myself.

Yesterday, I accessed the Macavee free virus scan which I ran on my computer and it checked 20050 files but it did not detect the Trojan Horse virus WHY? They now want me to purchase their software at a cost of 35 Dollars, reduced to 25 Dollars, but why should I when it is not efficient?

Some virus checkers bring up false alarms.

Macavee is rubbish anyway.

I use Norton myself.

Did you keep McAfee up to date? Which version is it you have?

Anything lower than V7 isn't set to scan every file when it's installed. After you install you have to go into the program and tell it to check everything, including in ZIP files.

download the sophos free trial to purge your computer of viruses, trojans, etc.

The actual product is quite pricey, but the demo does the job.
http://www.sophos.com/products/sav/eval/

We use it at work and it is the business, quiet, unobtrusive and 100% (so far) effective.

:lol: I guess you really do not pay attention to the industry, McAfee has proven to be best on the market, for many years.

I brought it, didn't bother to install it for 2 months, registered it on-line, I now have 1 year of free virus upgrade from that point. Proceeded to download the virus updates, got to the 101th virus definition and it crashed. Tried it again, crashed. Looks like their programmer made an array the size of 100 which basically means it cannot handle downloading more than 100 virus definitions. I phoned/emailed and their reply was to buy the latest version.

That customer care for you.

Beside, McAfee grind your computer down to a 486 speed.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
download the sophos free trial to purge your computer of viruses, trojans, etc.

The actual product is quite pricey, but the demo does the job.
http://www.sophos.com/products/sav/eval/

We use it at work and it is the business, quiet, unobtrusive and 100% (so far) effective.

We use sophos here, too and it slows the network down quite considerably. It seems very obtrusive and keeps flashing up boxes right in the middle of what you're doing. I also used to run it at home and once again it reduced my pc to a typewriter. Having said that it stops viruses stone dead.

Perhaps you're only using a cut down version?

Originally posted by maxt
We use sophos here, too and it slows the network down quite considerably. It seems very obtrusive and keeps flashing up boxes right in the middle of what you're doing. I also used to run it at home and once again it reduced my pc to a typewriter. Having said that it stops viruses stone dead.

Perhaps you're only using a cut down version?
Heh, perhaps you have it configured incorrectly as I have none of these symptoms either at home (very rarely flashes up any dialogue boxes that I can recall) or on the work network. If i'm doing processor intensive applications (games, fractals) then I switch the interchk monitor off, and my scans are scheduled for 3am which sometimes catches me out, but most of the time it is fine, and I have never had a virus (yet).

Does anyone know anything about tiny personal firewall?
I am using it now for 3 days already but i want to know if its good or shoud i switch to Norton?
thank you

School uses Sophus

We use A.V.G

and Dad uses Mc's

never had a virus so not bothered

Dino How Did You Know You Had the Trojan Horse Wht did it Do to Your Comp??

Originally posted by Alaska
:lol: I guess you really do not pay attention to the industry, McAfee has proven to be best on the market, for many years.
I'm sorry but I disagree vehemently... I went for their online virusscan product that was an IE based ActiveX tool... it was a complete nightmare that refused to work properly and actually let 2 virii into my system through the fact that it was no longer working but displaying as if it were.

Totally useless tech support and no acceptance of blame at all... That may have changed but I wouldn't bet on it...


As for Sophos... I admin a primary school network and we use that for it... The speed issue doesn't appear to be a problem and from a maintenance point of view it is an absolute doddle as you can install from your server... Heaven for a network tech bod like me :)

Hal - try Trojan Remover, at http://www.simplysup.com/tremover/ - you can download the fully working evaluation version, which should suffice to rid you of the Trojan. A Trojan isn't a virus, and most AV software won't pick them up or remove them too well. They're faily rare now - especially if you have a firewall installed.

Hope that helps