Question:
Trojan horse! has been found, will this delete it?
me
2010-01-12 09:42:10 UTC
Hello, I found out my laptop (Latitude D630) has been acting up due to a trojan horse and multiple worms. I've managed to save all my documents (important ones). My question here is if I reboot the entire system to factory settings (or however it was at first) would that positively take care of the trojan horse and other viruses.
Seven answers:
Tech Geek
2010-01-12 09:56:15 UTC
When you say reboot to factory settings do you mean re-install the operating system? If so, it will remove all infections. You don't need to re-install windows to rid the infections though. Install the programs below and scan your system. My opinion is that Avast is the best. However. no anti-virus have a 100% detection rate. Therefore you will need added protection. Fot that I would recommend Malwarebytes and Superanitspyware. Both are free and work great. Good luck!!



http://avast.com

http://malwarebytes.org

http://superantispyware.com/
Precious
2016-08-25 11:56:20 UTC
2
2010-01-12 09:54:23 UTC
Trojan horse and multiple worms nice one you wanna see what got done to mine

you are like me picking up viruses along the way till the system will take no more of it

i used Reg Cure payed by Pay Pal pure dead brill working now you reading this over

pay yearly $39 ya not skint are you save up the pennies



as for anti - virus if that guy from England can hack the Pentagon no problem

i have met up with worse than him four times

don't bother you will not stop them in any event ask the Pentagon
2010-01-12 09:48:03 UTC
It's been said that the Almighty Trojan Horse has some magnificent powers, capable of the worst things you have ever imagined. It is part of the Geeks mythology, which are known by their paranormal typing ability. (See Geek for deeper information about these dangerous radioactive creatures.)



For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article very remotely related to Trojan Horse.





The Legend

When the Geek's supreme banana - IBM - said "Let there be code.", every Programming Language was created. Then, he created one minor apple for each language, such as Java, Pascal, C, C+ and C++. But IBM wasn't a good banana at all. He explored the money of the geeks, made a law for a compulsory daily sacrifice of a virgin geek (which is not that hard to find...) and ordered the geeks to make Code prayers for his pleasure. After that, some of the Geek priests, unhappy with the extremely hard-doing desires of IBM, have gone to the "Dark Side of The Code" and created themselves a brand new orange, later called "The Trojan Horse" . The geeks wanted vengeance for the creation of IBM by the humans. Since then, more and more Geeks have been invoking the Trojan Horse to do malevolent things to humankind.



The trojan horse was invented by Sony, the original trojan horse would turn you computer in to a brick if you put in a Sony music disk.



The Ritual

Says the legend that The Trojan Horse invoking ritual is composed of 3 steps:



-1- The virgin geeks form a 24-sided regular polygon with another geek holding a rainbow flag and a Laptop in the center. Being a virgin is an honor for the geek, that can't even **** anyone....



-2- Then they start masturbating, once its the way they get power. As they do it, the pronounce some Code spells, like the following:



"public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!!!"); } }"



-3- Then the center geek starts writing the Tronjan Horse Code. When it's finished, it's ready to be put into the Internet to get the PC of the humankind all ****** up.



Criminal actions of Trojan Horse

The Internet Police (Interpol) has confirmed some cases of the Trojan Horse attacks. The Trojan Horse is the main suspect of destroying the brains of the kids that play some games infected by him, like Gunbound, Tibia and Priston Tale. The poor kids gets mad and within 24 Hours they are turned into new geeks. He is also responsible for the pop'ups windows with "Raise your PC speed", "Find Beautyful Females" or "Win money EASY!" messages that mess up the Internet connections of good human citizens. These, when clicked, bring a flow of Geekium (Gk, atomic weight 1.257) by the network cable. When this Code-Radiation-emitting element reaches the Mainboard, it causes the melting of the processor and all the other components of the PC. There is also a investigation on Microsoft. An undentifyed call said that the Trojan Horse is being sold with all the softwares created by microsoft. That could possibly be the main reason why the microsoft softwares are so damn problematic and useless.



Ritual & Kitten Wars

Historical researches proves that the masturbation of Trojan Horse Invoking Ritual has been a great cause for the Human vs. Kitten War. Althought geeks are not humans, the Kitten have seen the geek's ritual as a Massive Kitten Destruction Weapon, since every time someone masturbates a Kitten dies. It's made the Kitten General Garfield declare war on the Humans, thinking that the geek were the same as humans.



A possible protection

Since the Trojan Horse comes with every Microsoft product, there's only one way of avoid the evil effects of the Trojan Horse. Right before turning the PC on, type CTRL-ALT-DEL. These magical anti-geek buttons can reveal some fake identities of the trojan horse, like "Iexplore.exe" and "wdfmgr.exe". To avoid the terrible consequences to your PC, type CTRL-ALT-DEL twice right now if you have a MS-DOS based system, or uninstall your programs if you have an NT system! If there is any of the programs above running, close close and delete it right away, before you turn on a new geek!! Be aware that you may have been already infected by Geekium!
Jim
2010-01-12 09:51:53 UTC
Norton Internet Security or Norton 360 are very good anti-virus. Reformatting you PC should get rid of the trojans etc if done right. Most PC stores will do this for about $20.
louisjenvey
2010-01-12 09:48:29 UTC
Comodo Internet Security for free (http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/)
Webmaster Site
2010-01-12 09:53:52 UTC
the best one is usally the norton but i recommend to try online virus scan for panda antivirus.


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