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794. Bleedin' Trojans

6 October 2006

The other day, the boy (Liam, that is) received an MSN message purporting to be from one of his friends. The message asked him if he recognised himself in the linked image. Of course, when curiosity comes in the door, sense goes out the window, and Liam clicked on the link. The rest, as they say, is another story; one of trying, and largely failing, to stem the proliferation of malicious codes that were taking over his computer. I spent almost the whole day - right into the wee small hours - trying to wrestle with the little buggers and minimise the damage. All of the computer's normal defensive arsenal was failing to root out the pernicious little bytes. Drastic (or should that be desperate?) action was becoming increasingly necessary as SpyBot and AdAware kept on finding more of the little buggers after they had both told me that the threat was over. My anti-virus software kept telling me that it had successfully deleted the trojans, whilst simultaneously saying that they were still there. There was nothing left for it but to save all the important data onto a DVD, which will be thoroughly scanned before being used, and reformat the hard-drive then reinstall Windows and everything else. No end of fun in my house! Liam, the culprit of the story, left me to it, while he and Paddy swanned off to spend the weekend at Paddy's gran's house in Dumfries.

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suse15-Oct-2006 23:39
Oh, how I remember those days. I have only one word of sad advice: Mac. I've never looked back.
Stu07-Oct-2006 20:53
Interessante, Ana, por quê o anti-virus que tinha - e que falhou - era exactamente esse, Kaspersky! Deitei-o fora e comprei Norton!
Ana Carloto O'Shea07-Oct-2006 20:47
What a nightmare... I know because recently I've been through the same ordeal. It turn out that I've managed to kick the butt of those Trojan that had invaded my computer. 27 of them, imagine!!! The antivirus software kept telling me that the pc was clean, whilst it kept on running extra slow and crashed often... I was about to format when I've decided to download a trial version of the "Kaspersky" anti-virus (no they aren't paying me for the publicity ;)) and bingo!! it managed to clean those bastards from the PC :D
E claro... depois acabei por comprar esse mesmo anti-virus, mas depois do que aconteceu, dou o dinheiro por muito bem empregue. Se alguma vez tiveres problemas desses experimenta, vais ver que é um software fantástico, pelo menos no que toca aos Trojans...
Que praga!!
Bom fim de semana para ti Stewart.