Pierre.Suave
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Mon May-11-09 01:50 PM
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| A serious post about Facebook/Yahoo and a possible Trojan infection... |
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Last night, and yesterday I spent way too many hours fixing a friends new Vista laptop, and ended up doing a complete re-install. now, she claims she went to only TWO websites with it this morning, Facebook and Yahoo, and had a popup about a TROJAN being found and cleaned, already, less than 24 hours after having a brand new, clean install.
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| HopeHoops
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Mon May-11-09 01:54 PM
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| 1. Dude, Vista IS a TROJAN, but with two exceptions: |
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1) a virus usually DOES something
2) a Trojan provides protection
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| NJmaverick
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Mon May-11-09 02:46 PM
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| 2. That's very odd, very odd indeed |
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How did you do the complete re-install?
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| Pierre.Suave
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Mon May-11-09 03:06 PM
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| 3. well, it is a HP/Compaq computer |
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and since they were nice enough not to include discs, but a recovery partition, we had to use that.
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| NJmaverick
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Mon May-11-09 06:55 PM
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| 4. I would go to Major Geeks |
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download and run
under anti-spyware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
and
SuperAntiSpyware
It's possible the restore was infected as well, depending on how and when the restore partition was created.
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