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December 9th, 2003 13:00
deleted important file? help!
Through Aol Instant Messenger I was pretty sure I had gotten a trojan on my computer (I have this message in AIM profile that won't go away and only appeared after I clicked on a link from an "infected" friend of mine, now neither of us can get rid of the trojan)
1) So I used Nortan Antivirus to scan my computer and it did find one infected file which it said may be beyond repair so I deleted the file, it was "C:\Windows\AV.EXE"... do I need to re-create this file somehow?
2) I still have the trojan, I think, because the message is still in my AIM profile.... anyone know how to get rid of it? or where I should post for this?
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covenn
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December 9th, 2003 16:00
(sorry, I have windows 98)
I will visit the website you included and hopefuly it will help. I did go to the windows updates for internet explorer and updated everything before I ran the virus scan. So I'm not sure if that whole is patched even though I still seem to have the trojan? How is it that I deleted the file and did the windows updates but still have the trojan apearing in my AIM? (I even re-scannedm computer earlier and it found nothing harmful). I don't know what else to do.
ryri
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December 9th, 2003 16:00
av.exe is the trojan you are talking about.
I've seen this page as being helpfiul: http://www.siena.edu/antivirus/viruses/realphx.htm
Note that you have an unpatched hole in IE that is allowing it to spread. Visit windows update and download the critical updates.
ryri
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December 10th, 2003 02:00
okay, this may be an obvious thing, but did you actually edit your AIM profile to remove the link?
covenn
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December 10th, 2003 04:00