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Discussion in 'malware problems & news' started by Jeffrey Miller, Oct 10, 2003.

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  1. my girlfriend and her roomate both have a thing in their aol instant messenger profile that creates a link to <a porn portal>and changes their homepages to that as well. virus scan says there's a trojan, and we got rid of it on the roomate's pc, but we cannot find it on my girlfriend's. has anyone seen this before or know how to deal with it?






    Removed the link. If anyone thinks it is needed for the solution, PM me. Pieter
     
  2. Pieter_Arntz

    Pieter_Arntz Spyware Veteran

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    Hi Jeffrey,

    Could you please tell us what scanner you used and what name it used for that trojan?

    Regards,

    Pieter
     
  3. jeff miller

    jeff miller Guest

    Hi, thanks for the help so far, I would have replied sooner, but i had class. The virus scan that the roomate used was Symantec, my girlfriend used the same scanner and it didn't find anything. The file that was found was download.aduent.trojan, apparenltly :p
     
  4. Pieter_Arntz

    Pieter_Arntz Spyware Veteran

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    Ah. Better known as Surferbar.

    Please read: http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/index.php?showtopic=10456

    Let me know if you need any further help.

    Regards,

    Pieter
     
  5. Jeff Miller

    Jeff Miller Guest

    Thanks a lot, I'll take care of it for her once she gets back, it'll be much appreciated :)
     
  6. Pieter_Arntz

    Pieter_Arntz Spyware Veteran

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    Hi Jeff,

    You may also want to read this: http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/index.php?showtopic=13416
    and see if that av.exe is present and runniong on that computer.

    Regards,

    Pieter
     
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