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Re: Question for all
From: "Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:41:28 -0700
From: Flory D Jeffrey Contractor 59MDSS/MSISI <Jeffrey.Flory2 () LACKLAND AF MIL>A friend of mine recently went from Windows ME to Win2K, but now he has a trojan on his computer. He is running Norton Anti-virus, and it will not clean it off, it will only quarentine it. The affliction is:Backdoor.Trojan, and it has placed a hidden folder on his hard drive called: Payload.Dat. He cannot get ride of it. We have tried doing a search on theinternet for some kind of information pertaining to this, but we had no luck. We also tried all the antiviral websites but they do not have a tool for this. My question is: Has anyone ever heard of this, and if so, how do you clean it off. Thanks in advance for any assistance, anyone can provide.
Well, the best plan would be to wipe your hard drive and start over, but barring that, my next step would be to use SpybotSD, it's pretty good at cleaning out garbage like that. If it works you might consider sending a donation, the developer does all that work for free.
Chris Berry compjma () hotmail com Systems Administrator JM Associates "Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb ? A: It can't be done; it's a hardware problem." _________________________________________________________________The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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