Trojan Horse warnings

888qqq

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Compaq Presario 5000, Model 5BW220, Made 7/19/00, Windows XP Pro, 15 Gig master drive, 37 Gig slave drive, 512 MB RAM, 631 MHz Intel Celeron processor, Compaq 06C0 motherboard.

I have been getting Symantec Trojan Horse notices daily over the last 4 or 5 days. They read: "Trojan Horse, C:\temp\$6DF16099.t$m, location: quarantine, access denied". The other three I wrote down read the same except for C:\temp\$563D46A8.t$m, C:\temp\$5C003D2D.t$m and C:\temp\$05D36D6Et$m. I right clicked on the temp file to delete all its contents and got a message saying: "Cannot delete $6B7B27CB.t$m. Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name". Should I delete the temp file? If so, how? What else should I do about the Trojan Horse attempts? I use AVG, ZoneAlarm as well as several anti spyware/malware programs. Thanks for any replies.

 

Fokks

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You can try booting off of a Linux Live CD, like Ubuntu, then you could browse and delete those files in the C:\ drive while they're not active.

I would also recommend trying another anti-virus program as well to see what it finds and cleans that AVG hasn't. You could also try using the free online anti-virus scanners like...

housecall.trendmicro.com
www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

Then I would recommend backing up what you want to keep and do a reinstall just to be safe.