I got a trojan and/or got hacked.

clicknext

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Mar 27, 2002
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Hey guys, I got a trojan that was identified by norton antivirus as hacktool.rootkit. I removed most of it using NAV and have zone alarm installed now, but it's still detected in explorer.dll whenever I use the GUI and iexplorer.dll whenever I use internet explorer.

How do I get rid of it completely? Norton says delete failed because of course it cannot delete explorer since that file is rather important.


By the way, I don't really know how I got this. What I do know is that when I tried to download a skin from winamp.com, a little window popped up for a second that was called IRC-something, and then my computer started to bog down a lot. I ran norton and it found the trojan at that point.
 

n0cmonkey

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Jun 10, 2001
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Format and reinstall. It's tough to know what all the trojan or whatever touched. It's the only really safe choice for a non-expert. I know that would be about the third step in the process for me.

Nuke'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. :D