Help with IE7 and Trojan

[sheeny]

Two days ago I upgraded from IE6 to IE7. During installation, a popup appeared saying basically my security wasn't high enough, did I want o change to recommended settings. I chose yes.

Since then, my main PC has been dogged with the Vxidl trojan. I am running Vet Anti-virus and Ad-Aware. VET keeps finding it, but doesn't delete all the files. I have been running Ad-Aware as well everytime VET finds something and it keeps finding critical objects to kill as well.

The Vxidl trojan keeps appearing in my Temp, and Temporary Internet files directories. I have just deleted every file in these two directories in an effort to get rid of it as VET was not deleting some instances.

Two questions:

1. Is anyone aware of a security issue with IE7 or any particular security settings I need to check?
2. Can anyone point me to some info or a cleaner so I can make sure I get this trojen off my system? I haven't found anything useful yet myself.

I'm posting this from my lappy with the main PC goes through full checks by both VET and Ad-Aware... 500,000 files takes a while!

Al.

[JethroB76]

Spybot - Search and Destroy, Adaware (you already have), PrevX1 and Ewido anti-spyware are ones I've tried and had reasonable success with, failing that there is the Hijackthis route that requires some idea of what processes on your computer are goodies and what are baddies....

All this crap was why I changed over to Firefox:mad2:

[sheeny]

Thanks Mate.

I'm finding out a little about this thing. Prevx has some info on their web site. They recommend not trying to get rid of the thing manually... so I was about to ask if Prevx are reputable or not (I haven't heard of them before).

I'll give it a whirl.

Al.

[JethroB76]

Another way may be to use one of the online scanners like Panda Activescan, or Kapersky, I think does one. I assume you are using a firewall?
A program like CCleaner can be good too, to clean out all the places that some of these nasties can hide.

Good luck, trojans/spyware etc suck

[acropolite]

Check the norton site, they quite often have downloads for removal of specific trojans.

[sheeny]

Thanks Guys.

I'm running Prevx1 as we speak. The full scan by both VET and AD-Adware failed to remove it.

Prevx1 seems to have got it, but having said that it's going through a full system scan... 45% done...

Fingers crossed!

And thanks very much for your help!!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Al.

[sheeny]

Oh no... that 45% was only drive C:...

Got the big D:, K: and L: to go...:sadeyes:

I want to go to bed!

Al.

[JethroB76]

These things can also be in your system restore files, which don't get scanned and can be a source of reinfection if you do a restore in the near future, so just be aware..

[sheeny]

Thanks again for your help and advice guys!:thumbsup:

I left the PC running with Prevx1 doing a full system scan while I went to bed...:zzz2: When I got up at about 3:30 it had finished. This is the first time I've run the system since then, and so far it's clean!

Al.