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Originally Posted by pmrid
No. I was using the full AVG suite.
The Trojan presented as if it was an anti-virus product and kept popping up saying you're infected and wanting me to follow a link for a solution. I had a similar thing 3 or 4 years back. It actually disabled AVG. I had no choice but to do a full recovery -total wipe and rebuild and bye bye data, files, astro photos, kids and krandkids - the lot.
Now where did I put that backup???
Peter
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Hi Peter
That was just a thought. There is a program that comes as part of MinGW named elfedit.exe. There are two formats one has 1.05MB and one that has around .65MB. Malwarebytes won't let you even look at one (I think it is the smaller version). Both these files have been examined by AVG, Macafee and Norton but they cannot find any problem.
I have seen those "scam" programs a couple of times and seen people get caught with them. There is a way to get rid of them. I googled and found the procedure. Once you try to clear it you get caught in the cycle that erases your recovery files and wants you to buy a product.
I keep an image of my main drive, updated and use a separate drive for data files that "must not be lost" This gets around most of the troubles.
Barry