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Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

Posted by bigbaby (My Page) on
Tue, Nov 17, 09 at 11:02

My computer caught a trojan horse about 3 weeks ago. It was terrible. My friend took my computer and fixed it. There is still a problem that continues now. It's when I'm trying to search for something. If I type in a word or phrase and search it, then you get a list of websites. If I click on the website's title, as I usually do, another window opens up and I am redirected to another website. Sometimes I can go back and copy and paste the actual website, but not always. To make it worse, if I google "having problem with browser redirecting" or something like that to find a solution, and click on an article or something, it immediatley starts downloading that trojan horse, which my new firewall catches. So I can't even search for answers and each time I have to scan my computer to get rid of it. Now it's doing it when I click on a thread here at the garden web, too.

I emailed my friend about the problem, but I feel bad always calling him when I have problems. I have no idea what else to do!! Does anyone know how I can fix the problem? Secondly, what do you do when you have such problems? We used to use the geek squad at Best Buy but they are really terrible anymore.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

yes you need to go to this security help forum, register, post a thread in the area I list and post this same info there, the team will help you. You will need to run some special programs that must be run with the assistance of one of the security pros.
Analysis and Malware Removal

Tell Corrine I sent you, I will look for your post there. if you need help doing that just let me know.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

Secondly, what do you do when you have such problems?

You come to places like this one as you have just done.

Be prepared to give as much detail as possible and be willing to follow along with instructions. Always read the instructions one line at a time rather than look at the whole thing and feel overwhelmed. If you get overwhelmed hit the Cancel button and walk away till you regain your composure and start again.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

Okay Raven, I went to the link you posted and registered. I'm waiting for an email from them.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

You probably don't have a remnant, you've got the whole thing. I had one like this a couple of weeks ago and it was very persistent. My McAfee caught part of it, but what got through was able to replicate like a zombie coming back from the dead. I finally completely cleared it out by running Malwarebytes, then Spybot, then SuperAntispyware...all free programs. By the way, when you click on a link and it redirects, you may be able to see what the rogue site is by looking at the bottom of the screen: it should flash the name in the task bar for a fraction of a second. Mine was something called "thefeedyard.com" which was registered to some Russian hacker.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

Thanks Kudzu. At the moment I'm completely swamped so I'll probably have to wait until Saturday to try to do any of this stuff. Some of the suggestions I've gotten have been very complicated! I'll have to wait until I have enough time to focus on it all.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

very very rarely do we get them fully clean using the mentioned programs, they do an excellent job to get it removed enough to be able to work with it and finish the job. Just follow my link and do post at LzD the team there will assist you, I can start a thread there for you if you prefer just let me know.
It is likely you will need to use combofix with guidance and specific to your machine.

I think many would be very surprised to find just how much remnant remains even when it seems to be back to normal. Which is why when one of the bad ones hits it is imperative to go to the security help forums and let the pros help. Looking at logs and in depth examination is essential.
Unfortunately it is not something everyone is willing to do, it is time consuming and very detailed.
The most important thing though is once you do get help from a forum like LzD it is imperative to stick with that forum and that team till they tell you it is all done. Following different suggestions on various places confuses the issue and is not fair to the helpers.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

Okay Ravencajun. It's Sunday morning, I have a strong cup of coffee and I think I'm ready to try to tackle this problem! I've logged onto LzD and I should just start by posting my question, right? Here goes!!


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?!!!!!

Ravencajun, I'm going through the "Log Posting Instructions" now so I'm not posting a new thread yet. I don't want you to waste your time looking for a thread when it's not there yet!!


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

it is ok just go ahead and post there you can actually also put a link to your thread here so we can keep it all together and avoid confusion. If you need me to help you post just let me know.


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RE: Trojan horse remnants!! Can anyone help?

Here is the link to the LzD site.

Here is a link that might be useful: LandzDown Link


 
 

 

 


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