I've got a trojan on my machine and not sure how to get it off

[BendyCowgirl]

Was wondering why my compy was so slow considering it's a new machine and was running like a dream for the first couple of weeks so I as fiddling around with it to get it to sped up and when I ran msconfig I found a trojan. I disabled it from start-up but I know it needs to go permenantly...wondering how to do this. Also I have anti virus on my machine but wondring if I need spybot also? Can anyone help? Cheers.

[Guest]

have a look at the thead I nudged up for you

[BendyCowgirl]

Thanks Val...no sure it is a trojan no tbh...it came up as msmsgs which I understood to be dodgy but since deleting it all that's hapnned is my msn messenger has gone off...so I guess it's msn messenger? In which case I still don't knwo what's making my computr slow.

[tugman]

trojan

Hiya
My neighbour had trojan on his computer. Kids got something in via MSM Message
My son put on Anti-Malware program for them & it found 35 trojans.
He put computer into safe mode & ran it that way to clear the system.
Somebody on here might know about doing it in safe mode & explain better.

tugman;)

[BendyCowgirl]

I don't think it's a trojan now it seems to be msn messenger. Any tips on how to speed up comp would be cool though.

[maggie_4_7]

So what is it? A virus or what?

You want to speed up your computer with what?

[Grampa Jim]

Any Greeks about? They knew how to get rid of Trojans. Where is Odysseus when you need him?

[maggie_4_7]

ha :D

[Lyn A]

I can't see how running msconfig would find a trojan, but if you have one, I would try using thr free trial of The Cleaner v5.1.

[Britec]

Hi,

1) First download and run ccleaner. CCleaner - Home

2) Turn off system restore

3) download and do full scan of SUPERAntiSpyware.com - AntiAdware, AntiSpyware, AntiMalware!

4 ) download spybot and run it The home of Spybot-S&D!

5) Then do a full onlinescan here Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab

6) to make sure you can do another scan

Trend Micro HouseCall - Free Online Virus and Spyware Scan - Trend Micro UK

After all that you should be clean, if not give me a shout

Hope this helps you out

[BendyCowgirl]

Just to confirm...it's NOT a trojan, at all. Thanks though and Maggie I want to speed up teh comp so it can go at 70 miles and hour then maybe it can take me to London and back ;-)

[Linda from Murton]

Britec - brilliant posting. Good links

BendyCowgirl - can you tell us how you found out it wasnt a trojan? Did you manage to speed up your computer?