Re: Question for all

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> 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 
> 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.

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."

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