virus help

[maggie46]

my comp did a virus scan and came back with a trojan byte virus. norton anti virus has failed to quarantine or delete it any idea how bad this is and how do i get rid of it

thanks

[ormus]

see www.grc.com

[eggyeaster55]

another norton fcuk up i don't know what ppl see in norton , over hyped company as far as i am concerned, but that is just my opinion no offence to users intended

[williegunn]

I seem to have collected a trojan horse from the Win XP update site!
It was identified as Downloader Small.AR. Anyone come across this? McAfee viruscan online failed to spot this but AVG did.

[John]

Originally posted by maggie46
my comp did a virus scan and came back with a trojan byte virus. norton anti virus has failed to quarantine or delete it any idea how bad this is and how do i get rid of it

thanks

http://www.simplysup.com :)

[Phaedrus]

Hi Maggie,
There are different types of nasties out there including: viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, diallers, browser Hijackers,(scumware) etc. To best protect your pc from these different types of nastie you need to have "layered protection". (ie. anti-virus, firewall, anti-trojan, and spyware and dialer removers).
I would definately recommend a dedicated Anti-Trojan program.

See the "TrojanHunter vs TDS-3" thread.

Cheers,

Trev.

[ormus]

read the grc site and throw your norton in the bin.
along with macafee and some others.

[John]

i hate Norton and Mcafee as it is, i have the original discs here if anyone wants them cos i would rather use the freebies!

[ormus]

ive lost count of the number of times ive had trouble fixing folks puters, but after removing norton, all seems to settle down. summat must be amiss.
ive never used it since. i wouldnt touch it with a 10 ft canalboat stick.

[John]

Norton System works! like **** it does :lol

[Snuffs99]

got kasperski meself, so far so good.

[John]

i use AVG cos i can spell it LOL

(honest!)

[Phaedrus]

Snuffs,
Kasperski is rated very highly. I fancy it and was asking for opinions on it recently.
It`s a shame it has different versions for 9x and XP though. ( I use both, and don`t want to buy two licences ) :(

Cheers,

Trev.

[williegunn]

I had constant trouble with McAfee viruscan online, including finding that they had automtically debited a renewal subscription to my credit card at the end of the first year. It also produced a number of conflicts with other applications.
So far, I have found the free version of AVG very good. In fact, if you use this in conjunction with Zonealarm (firewall)and the free version of Adaware (spyware detector) you should have reasonably good security, without needing to spens any money.