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AVG is running and has found 2 Trojans. It runs every day and this is the first day it`s found these items. The infected items are DelDrv.exe and a0024942.exe. The first was in the Program Files folder for the conversion software for an mp3 player I have (strange place for it to infect?), and the other is in System Restore.

Anyone know where these two come from? Or what they do? Google results show DelDrv.exe to be from a Canon scanner, but ours isn`t used on this PC - it also shows an instance of it in connection with the mp3 utility, but it`s in a foreign script so it`s all ????s.

Ad-Aware and HijackThis are clean.

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At lot depends on the name of the trojan and how it infects your system rather than the filenames in particular. A lot of viruses modify existing files and "attach" themselves to legitimate files. If this is the first day your virus scanner has found the infection and you run it every day, then unless your AV definitions have just been updated you should be fairly safe.

Course of action is to make sure the infected files are cleaned if possible, or deleted otherwise. Then perform multiple scans until your system is confirmed clean. Then, just to be on the safe side, change all the passwords for websites, system accounts etc that you have used in recent days.

Hope this helps
Rob

That reminds me of somehting I meant to post a while ago, I have 2 PCs, both with free AVG, and it found trojan`s in my bittorrent exe, and the other exes int he bittorrent directory..

AdAware, Spybot, Panda online scan and Trend Micro on line scan didn`t find any problems, so I think it was a false positive from AVG (to be sure I deleted them from the vault, and I re-installed bittorrent in case), so it could be a false positive for you to maybe?

have you tried panda online and trend micro?

I forget the name of the trojan avg thought it found, but I couldn`t find any info on it on the internet.

Alan

www.admars.co.uk

I don`t think they are viruses either. The trouble with a lot of these programs is that they are over aggressive.

i had avg antivirus its absulutly rubbish as i got a virus known as blackworm with this thing running it did`t detect it or scan it resulting in ruining most of my critical files forcing a complete new windows reinstall from orig windows cds (not reboot) i decided to get norton a couple of techies at the cumputer store recommended it has a+ in getting rid of anything a had including most of the common spyware as well!!

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