trojan remover

[Rich]

well i did a stupid thing yesterday my kids where playing on the wii its been soft modded my daughter asked if i could down load a game for her so off i went to my favorite download site and found the game she wanted

i downloaded the file an iso file well all didnt go as i expected it contained loads of Trojans i know i should have scanned it first but didnt so i managed to infect my laptop

i shut the laptop down restarted in safe mode and run a command line virus scan (avg) it found loads and quarantined what it could but im still left with two which no matter what i do i cant get rid of

so does anyone know of a good free trojan remover

[Drift]

I got two off Kierons laptop just using windows defender, was quite surprised

[Rich]

cheers Ste i tried it no luck

[bigdazz]

i use avg too my son was playing on mine had the same problem had to a full recovery on mine

[Stuart69]

Have you tried using Malwarebytes? It's pretty good and free

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

[Norse]

Lavasoft Adaware is quite handy

[Drift]

Was going to mention that too, it has a live scan too.

[Roo]

[furball]

It's a bit limited as it's only designed to deal with stuff that's currently doing the rounds, but stinger from McAfee is small and free ...

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger (worryingly I know that url by heart)

Failing that, if you know the names of the little critters try putting the name followed by 'removal tool' into google as some of the trickier ones end up with their own special removal tool. It's also worth looking in the McAfee library (http://vil.nai.com) for details of particular viruses, although a lot of the time it can get down to manual registry editing so I wouldn't recommend it unless you know what you're doing as registry changes are INSTANT and IRREVERSIBLE (so create a restore point before you try, just in case).

You could also try running a scan with Hijack This (http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/), but again, be aware that this is quite a powerful tool and IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE may result if you aren't careful using it.

And yes, I am being a bit of a nanny about some of these tools/techniques. I've seen very experienced professionals make a teeny mistake and completely knacker a machine.

It's also worth noting that some viruses have a hidden component that sits and basically keeps checking that the 'virus' file is still there and running. Every time a virus scanner deletes it the hidden bit simply recreates the file and you're infected all over again. If you find this happening, a handy tool to have is Process Monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx). This is an updated version of the old sysinternals filemon combined with regmon. Among other things it can tell you what files are calling/accessing what other files, registry entries, etc so you can find the hidden 'parent' file and kill it.

[bobbinsjob]

my lappy got hopelessly infected with addware, spyware and trojans (too much browsing of selective educational media ) and AdamP downloaded malwarebytes onto it......10 mins later all fixed

[hipplew]

It's a bit of a pain inthe bum but so are some of these trojan's in the passed I have used CCleaner in conjunction with spybot, Spybot is good but slow and best of all you don't need any key's for it

[V6POWER]

How much important info is on your laptop? Do you have the original windows disc? There is always the option of a full format, the benefit being you know your starting over with a clean machine that will probably run quicker aswell.
If you decide you wanna do it give us a pm and ill talk you through it if your unsure.;

[Rich]

i have just used Malwarebytes and if what it said it found and removed is true then it rocks i will just have to wait and see if the laptop is clean now thanks for the advice folks

[adyclemo]

Malwarebytes does exactly what it says it has done. We use it at work.

At work we also use

Superantispyware
Trojan Remover
CCleaner
Combo Fix
Kaspersky Scanner
Kill Box
ATF Cleaner
HiJack This
Rogue Remover
Smit Fraud Fix
Spybot Search & Destroy
Avast Free