Re: Question for all

[stephen at unix dot za dot net <stephen () unix za net>]

put the hdd into another pc that is clean of virii/trojans/etc and then
run scans and whatnot..

the biggest prob is that when AV's find a virus, it can't remove it
because "file in use"


On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Flory D Jeffrey Contractor 59MDSS/MSISI wrote:

> 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 the
> internet 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.
>
> Jeff
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