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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Jappa52 on May 06, 2008, 06:29:45 PM
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Hey All-
My computer has picked up a virus. Don't know exactly what it is called but my norton identified it as a trojan of some sort. It causes explorer to freeze and i have to restart anytime i attempt a search on google/yahoo and click on the addresses. Every time I click on InternetExplorer it takes a long time for the page to start up as well. These problems are what's left after i followed nortons instructions to remove the virus. It's really nothing i cant live with (doesn't effect my Aces High!!!) but i would like to make sure it is entirely gone for security reasons. I have run norton's full system scans several times but it shows nothing. Do you guys know of a different program i can scan my computer with to identify and remove the problem? Thanks in advance,
jappa
-computers hate me-
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Well if it's a Trojan, then AVG is a good one, any other spyware/adware; Spybot S&D and Ad-aware
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Run your antivirus of choice in safe mode (repeatedly press F8 while the computer's booting) so that the virus/trojan isn't running while you scan.
To prevent just about all viruses/adware/spyware, use Firefox with the AdBlocker and NoScript extensions configured properly.
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Thank you for the replies. I am going to try and run another scan(pressing F8) now to see what happens.