Trojan-Agent

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:10 pm

Had a prize pratt from India post a load of links today, all deleted and banned.

The question is I ended up with 19 Trojan-Agent viruses.

I had a sneaky feeling about it and ran Malware straight away which detected and removed them (quarantined) but why didn't Avast pick them up.

wine~o · Post by **wine~o** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:41 pm

don't know scruff but my laptop has started doing all sorts of weird things when i logged on this afternoon, something about aztecs

can't backpage.....is this connected????

edit...have just run a scan, all back to normal...

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:18 pm

There's an aztec internet, but don't know of any viruses.

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:45 pm

Scruff,
Did you open the links to see what they were?

Regarding Avast not picking them up, depends upon how new they were or how they were hidden and did Avast have the definitions in its folder. Trojans are Malware or Spyware and not viruses so Avast may not have a definition of them.

Was it Malwarebytes that found them? If so, run another Quick Scan with it and remove all that it finds. Should only take a couple of minutes.

dave

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:21 pm

Yes there was two different posters,and around 20 odd posts

I clicked on one from each and both had the same url.

I've removed the url but this is the actual link so don't open it.

"http://www.google.com]click here to know more"

Malwarebytes found them, and re-booted after it removed them, then I ran it again and was clear.

I may run a full scan whilst I'm out.

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:32 pm

If it didn't find anything second time round, don't bother with a full scan.
Have you got SuperAntiSpyware installed?

If so update it and let that do a quick scan too.

dave

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:40 pm

Not got that one. I'll have a look at it later.

I was thinking of switching the portable Hd on and scanning the lot, haven't done it for a while.

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:45 pm

Worth while then if you are off out and don't need the PC.

SAS is the other tool along with MBAM that are a must-have.

Got to remember to update them every couple of days at the least as one of those trojans could have stopped you going online to some sites and prevented you getting updates so a scan may not have worked to get rid of everything.

dave

asinine · Post by **asinine** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:41 pm

Scruff run HiJackThis and post the log here. I'll have a look.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:33 pm

Don't seem to be having a problem asinine.

I'll have a look later in the week, gonna be a tad busy this week.

asinine · Post by **asinine** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:49 pm

No prob mate, but these things are good at hiding and repeating at a later date.

yourweb · Post by **yourweb** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:18 am

They now are attaching cookies to links they send which in turn once you open the message you got something extra.