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Old January 31st, 2003, 08:40 AM
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Default MusicSearch trojan?

A friend told me she had this trojan and can't get rid of it. I can't find any information on it anywhere.

Have any of you ever heard of it?
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Old January 31st, 2003, 08:46 AM
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Is your friend using AVG as his AntiVirus program?

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Old January 31st, 2003, 09:05 AM
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Yes I believe so - almost 100% sure she is.
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Old January 31st, 2003, 09:14 AM
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OK. If it's only one entry he has to find the file and be carefull not to doubleclick it, because it's probably a lop.com installer.
This is probably not the case since it should be easy to remove.

If he has several he should download Spybot S&D and make sure to update it before he scans his computer. After that he should remove at least all the entries in red.

Let me know if that helped,

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Old January 31st, 2003, 09:22 AM
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Default Re:MusicSearch trojan?

Thanks Pieter I'll pass this on and see if it will help.

Just curious - you asked about AVG - is there a connection here?

Again thanks.
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Old January 31st, 2003, 09:37 AM
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I happen to know AVG detects lop.com as MusicSearch Trojan.
Lop is in the top 5 of worst cases of spyware, so that's not a bad thing.
I just wanted to make sure this was not something completely different.

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