Please Help - I think I may have a virus (Trojan horse)

[billythefish]

Hi,

First of all I apologise if I've posted this topic in the wrong section!

The other day I downloaded, what I thought, was the latest JAVA update, after that I ran my usual AVG scan and it picked up the following Trojan horse:

Trojan horse BackDoor.Ircbot.MHT

AVG moved it to the virus vault and I subsequently deleted it but since that time I keep getting AVG pop-up warnings about tracking cookies, mainly tracking cookie.2o7 but I have had warnings for the following:

Tracking cookie.2o7
Tracking cookie.Revsci
Tracking cookie.Tacoda
Tracking cookie.Tradedoubler
Tracking cookie.Adtech
Tracking cookie.Yieldmanager

I can't say that I'm experiencing any major issues since the warnings but I guess the Laptop is a little slower than usual? I recently downloaded CCleaner and followed the instructions about how to delete old program files that aren't being used as well as old cookies etc, unfortunately I'm still getting the warnings and AVG is still picking up the same cookies when I do a scan?

Please help???

[tashi]

Hello billythefish, :welcome:


The other day I downloaded, what I thought, was the latest JAVA update, after that I ran my usual AVG scan and it picked up the following Trojan horse:

Trojan horse BackDoor.Ircbot.MHT

Did you download the update from Sun Java's official site?

AVG has a forum (http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-forum) where members can ask questions about the product's detections, false positives, cookies etc.

If the computer does show signs of infection you can follow the instructions in this link to post a preliminary DDS log: "BEFORE you POST"(READ this Procedure BEFORE Requesting Assistance) (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288)

Then start a new topic in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) copy paste the log into it and an analyst will advise you as soon as available.

Best regards

[billythefish]

Thanks Tashi! :thanks:

I've posted a thread on the AVG forum but if I don't get anywhere with that I'll start your process on here if that's okay. One question though, what's a DDS log? I've got a HijackThis log file which I downloaded yesterday?

Thanks :bigthumb:

[tashi]

Hello billythefish,

One question though, what's a DDS log? I've got a HijackThis log file which I downloaded yesterday?

The malware forum sticky shows how to obtain a DDS log, see post #2. :)

"BEFORE you POST"(READ this Procedure BEFORE Requesting Assistance) (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288)

Best regards,