Just scanned with A.G.V and its found 2 trojan downloader virus. they have been moved to the vault, but what should I do now do I have to leave them in the vault or can they be safely deleted? do you think it would be unwise to log on to do the banking and stuff.
I have never had a virus before (it's the last time the kids use the p.c ) and I am unsure as what to do all advise appreciated :)

Originally posted by honeyplanet
Just scanned with A.G.V and its found 2 trojan downloader virus. they have been moved to the vault, but what should I do now do I have to leave them in the vault or can they be safely deleted?

Do what you want.

Delete them if you feel like it, or leave them in quarentine. Either way, you should be safe (though you should perform a full system scan to be sure your PC is clean).

You should also change all/any passwords you use online.

Have fun:thumbsup:

Cheers.... :D giving a full scan now for the third time, want to be absolutley sure the nasty critters are all removed :suspect:

a week last sunday i checked the security situation on a neighbours puter cos theyd just gone broadband after 2 weeks on dial up.

found no av which last time i checked im sure they had norton installed.
no spybot search and destroy.......which i KNOW i put on last time i checked.
no firewall the xp one was disabled
no windaz updates.

and they use fileshare, HOW DODGY? :P

so i immediately scanned with spybot....found the usual dodgy cookies aswell as a couple of dso exploits.......fixed em.

installed and scanned with AVG.......it found 10 viruses, deleted 9, rebooted and scanned again, it found 3, still need to scan again.

enabled xps firewall, although it was hard to find cos of no updates / sp2.

downloaded and installed 25 critical updates.

Well the final scan did not find any more virus so hope thats the last of it, the offending trojan seems to have come with a spoof email from paypal phishers (you know the one where you have payed for a sextoy)

Originally posted by honeyplanet
Well the final scan did not find any more virus so hope thats the last of it, the offending trojan seems to have come with a spoof email from paypal phishers (you know the one where you have payed for a sextoy)
if you havent found it again.........good :)
leave the file in quarenteen for a few days till your sure the computers behaving itself and doesnt need the file......then go into quarenteen and delete the mofos lil ass.
maybe you need to turn off html and the preview pane in outlook express?? so you dont recieve anymore as easy as that again?