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Generic Trojan 17 and XP Security Extra...what a week!

tisch28 · 2010-03-27T09:28:09+00:00

I'm not one for blaming the kids but having lent my laptop to my teenage son earlier this week, it seems to have been returned to me in a rather sorry state. Whilst browsing online on Wednesday night my adaware adwatch live went mad detecting evil things as I was hit with the xp security extra virus. Whatever it was raced through my laptop faster than any scans could catch it and soon I couldn't connect to the web, update any of my malware programmes, or open any exe files. My computer was well and truly trashed. However, I gradually got it up and running by reading these forums each day at work and then coming home and working on it. I used safe mode, managed to update my MBAM and then system scan with that and adaware and spybot S&D. Upon removing the generic trojan that was found along with lots of other tracking cookies and the like my computer was working better again and seemed much improved. However, despite numerous clean scans, every time I restart the same viruses and trojans

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