maartenromijn
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| posted on 10/11/08 at 09:06 AM |
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Trojan virus found
Hi guys.
I have a problem with my PC at home. Yesterday I tried to start up and then AVG found Trojan virus in a specific file. Can't remember if it was
user.dll of windows.dll. Anyway, I chose to heal.
I guess the computer removed the affected files. When I tried to start up Internet Explorer or any other program it said: 'I cannot find
user.dll. New installation of this program might solve the problem.'
The system runned on an illegal version of windows 2000 (?), from which I do not have a CD-Rom. I do have Win95 on CD-Rom.
Two questions:
1. Can I get the important files from my computer?
2. Can I get the system back to work?
Should I ditch the PC and get a proper one? 
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BenB
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| posted on 10/11/08 at 09:09 AM |
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Usually "healed" files will be stored somewhere. You could try rummaging around in the AVG virus vault.....
Otherwise time to upgrade to XP 
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maartenromijn
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| posted on 10/11/08 at 09:16 AM |
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I forgot to mention: Today at startup the thing just keeps on starting up. It just repeats the startup process over and over again.
Suppose I would be able to get into the computer, can I just copy the important data to a memory stick and then format c: ? Will the copied data be
infected?
Then off course buy a legal version of XP 
Edit: and when the computer was still running yesterday I could not get into the AVG software either.
[Edited on 10/11/08 by maartenromijn]
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jabs
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| posted on 10/11/08 at 10:18 AM |
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U2u sent
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omega0684
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| posted on 10/11/08 at 12:38 PM |
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sorry to say that i had a similar problem with my pc and i had to get the recovery disc out! 
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philw
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| posted on 10/11/08 at 04:52 PM |
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AVG has just finished scanning my pc and found a trojan, it has moved it to the virus vault, what is a trojan? and could it have damaged/stolen any
info?
Must try harder
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blakep82
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| posted on 10/11/08 at 07:27 PM |
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weird thing i noticed, had this laptop for ages, but never any antivirus on it, thought i'd better sort it, installed avast, scanned, no viruses
then since installing it, its detected 3 viruses in as many weeks.
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maartenromijn
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| posted on 11/11/08 at 08:55 AM |
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AVG false update
I found out yesterday that AVG has issued a false update which sees user.dll as Trojan infected. User.dll will be removed which causes windows to not
function anymore.
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