Trojan Horse

[daftpunkit]

So the other night I go to bed after windows auto updated and restarts. I wake up with a notification from Norton Anti Virus (Corporate Edition) saying Real Time protection found a Trojan Horse (plain old trojan horse according to the virus library on Norton) @ C:\etc etc etc\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\wupdate.exe or something (I am using my laptop at home, this virus is on my PC at school) and that a quartitined failed, and cleaning it failed. So i found the file manually and deleted it, although I think it isn't that simple removing the virus.

First few questions:

1- Tomshardware has a news article about a false windows update going around saying it installed SP3 but this doesn't seem to be the one I got because it was XP doing the autoupdate, not me downloading some file manually and I didn't see any SP3 on my computer...

2- Trojan Horse, how does one fix that? Is it one of those viruses where it can steal my information? because then I will be afraid because I use online banking, etc.

Any knowledge on this would be appreciated.

 

[TraumaRN]

Lordie man you are lucky....just ONE trojan horse you are lucky compared to me....I had to basically upgrade to a new computer because of a combonation of spyware and viruses...all because I let one person use my computer ONCE and she somehow managed to get my old computer infected with a few spyware/viruses that require a complete hard drive wiping to get rid of completely...last time I let someone else use my computer without me standing over them...

 

[Rubycon]

Restart in SAFE MODE and do a full scan. Turn off system restore before doing this.

There is no SP3! That is fake and there are stories abound about this.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Please see The Consolidated Security Thread.