Author Topic: TROJAN adclicker (Read 328 times)

Chaos68 · « **on:** August 16, 2003, 04:05:08 PM »

my father-in-law has a trojan adclicker on his computer.
I found that its attached to the winpup32.exe and once you deleate it the trojan coppies itself. I looked it up on the internet and they are saying to try and deleat it in safe mode. We havent tryed it yet but i was woundering if anyone has had this trojan?

also i'm trying to get him to get a firewall. I'm using Sygate, and i gave him the zonealarm website (30day free trial). but is there any other free/free trial firewalls that he can download and try out thats really good.
P.S he dont know this type of stuff. he thinks if its mainstreem its good.

thanks

hyena426 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2003, 04:32:49 PM »

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and i gave him the zonealarm website (30day free trial).

if ya look down on the bottom of zonealarms web site,,they have a basic firewall thats free and works fine,,protected me from the worm and everything else so far,,nothing is completely safe anyways,,but a little protection helps if you keep being hacked,,i got hacked once,,and zonealarm stopped him<~~zonealarm kinda hides the free version so everyone will try the 30 day free trial,,but the free zonealarm is on there web site

as for the trojan,,im not sure,,i would say reformat your hard drive is best bet,,before it digs too deep and ruins your hard drive,,,,i never heard of the safe mode cure,,im sure otheres on the bbs will help you with that:)

MrCoffee · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2003, 04:38:03 PM »

I run a Linux stately inspection firewall. Im safe from just about everyone except the government, foreign governments, and military. Oh and Tom Clancy.

:rolleyes:

rpm · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2003, 10:09:55 PM »

If you could convince him to stay away from AOL, Yahoo and other "Newbie" sites along with learning not to open e-mail messages that have been forwarded 100 times he would probably never get a virus. My sister lives on Yahoo and I go about twice a year to "Fix this piece of cr@p". She still won't listen, and my Bro-in-law still thinks the internet is voodoo.