IDIOT + LIMEWIRE = TROJAN

Although nothing has 100% detection, 30 or so second opinions are nice to have.

 

What a wonderful read!

Its great to know there are so many people whom have never done anything silly or stupid,hell,take a look at my first wife and youll see what category I fit into.

Live and Learn C-boy,we all do at sometime or another.

Cheers for the post.

 

which one did you get out of question?
Some suggestions would be-
avast- http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
m c a f e e - http://www.natwest.com/microsites/personal/latest_deals/index.asp?referrer=online
avira- www.avira.com

 

I stay away from Limewire... it's almost as if it has a built-in conduit for malware.

 

Okay I ended up getting BitDefender 2008 and will use AVG Anti-Spyware as well which should be enough considering my lesson learned.

So everything looks good I found that the trojan had attached itself into my java files thats all I know and now it's gone.

About Limewire.... even some MP3 files seem legit until your do the " double Click of death " and no sound comes out ! So it's scary to think about using that again

And also considering I THOUGHT I had an anti virus installed my problems could have been going on for over a year !!!

Thanks to everyone for the comments and help this is why Wilders was the first place I logged into when this happened.

CHEERS !!

 

I would highly suggest Avast as your new anti virus. It has P2P scanning and Limewire is one of the programs it has protection for. Also get a HIPS program. That could help as well.

 

Stay with bitdefender, generally speaking detection and reliablility and heuristics are better.
also, i would reccomend swapping anti-virus/spyware programs every couple of months, just to be sure that bitdefender is protecting you.

 

hmmm, no mention of a firewall before acquiring Bitdefender 2008. all of those P2P connections and nothing monitoring them?! i would bite the bullet and reformat.


Mike

 

Indeed there are many good free ones - comodo or OA

 

Thanks I have added Comodo firewall as well, what do you mean by reformat ?? Does this mean full recovery of my hard drive ??

 

wow, that was stupid. using p2p to get a keygen. you do realize that's there's much better ways...

 

.... Yeah like pay for it...

I paid $200 for the licensed program which was a lot easier than filtering out all the crap on my drive !