Infected by trojan and possibly others

[pskelley]

Read this information and follow the directions carefully:
http://malektips.com/spyware_adware_0017.html

Make sure to make that one backup:
Open file "HOSTS" in Notepad. Before making changes, do a "Save As" and save a backup of this file as "HOSTS.BAK". Then reopen the HOSTS file.

Save that file to your Desktop for easy access.

Now, delete all entries in this file except for the following and any other entries you are sure have legitimate uses:

127.0.0.1 localhost

Now everything in the hosts file should be gone except for 127.0.0.1 localhost.

Thanks

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/10131
http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/sample.hosts.file.txt

[elmerjen]

Thanks for your help, I did as you asked and everything seems fine. I went ahead and deleted the hosts.sam file since that seemed to be causing the virus detection in Kaspersky scan. Afterwards, I ran Kaspersky scan and it said my computer was clean with 0 viruses detected. Once again I'd like to thank you for all your help. My computer is running better and I'm not being redirected to other web sites.
Thanks.

[pskelley]

Sounds great, here is some information to help it run better:
Make sure you have a new restore point:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...s/mcgill1.mspx

Some good information for you:
http://users.telenet.be/bluepatchy/m...wcomputer.html

Here is some great information from experts in this field that will help you stay clean and safe online.
http://users.telenet.be/bluepatchy/m...revention.html
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=279
http://russelltexas.com/malware/allclear.htm
http://forum.malwareremoval.com/viewtopic.php?t=14
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topict2520.html
http://cybercoyote.org/security/not-admin.shtml

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