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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 01:50 PM
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A serious post about Facebook/Yahoo and a possible Trojan infection...
Last night, and yesterday I spent way too many hours fixing a friends new Vista laptop, and ended up doing a complete re-install. now, she claims she went to only TWO websites with it this morning, Facebook and Yahoo, and had a popup about a TROJAN being found and cleaned, already, less than 24 hours after having a brand new, clean install.

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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 01:54 PM
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1. Dude, Vista IS a TROJAN, but with two exceptions:
1) a virus usually DOES something
2) a Trojan provides protection

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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 02:46 PM
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2. That's very odd, very odd indeed
How did you do the complete re-install?
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 03:06 PM
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3. well, it is a HP/Compaq computer
and since they were nice enough not to include discs, but a recovery partition, we had to use that.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-11-09 06:55 PM
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4. I would go to Major Geeks
download and run

under anti-spyware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

and

SuperAntiSpyware


It's possible the restore was infected as well, depending on how and when the restore partition was created.
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