Dear Clementine,

The problem was all in the registry..and with a faulty registry no new XP installation would work due to the same error messages on start-up...the messages were saying that a...

Bitdefender has taken a very strong interest in this new bug which their best efforts cannot cure. They are calling it a variant of Trojan Downloader.Agent .AE
and until now it has only been...

Dear Duncan,

I can only repeat what I said way back when this started..we thought of repartitioning and were told the virus would only copy itself in again..but we tried like you [and a dozen...

Dear group,

More on the cntinuing saga of Zohar and the Dell...the only av scan I found that cured anything was bitdefender which eliminated me from having Trojan Backdoor. IzRam1.7, backdoor...

Dear Duncan,

I have every reason to agree with you....honest...I would very much like to write over and wipe out the bug..clean the machine and load programs in from virus free Cd's....
Right...

Dear Duncan,

Well..um..No we didn't exactly partition anything..I've re-installed on my clone before and everything went as easy as pie..all I had to do was insert the Cd and let the wizard do...

Dear Friends,

If you've followed my threads [Zohar posts] you'll know the problems I've had this week trying to cure my Dell from really bad virus downloaded in an e-mail and apparently from...

Dear Xenosaga,

i think you may be right...let me list the symptoms as they occurred and maybe it wilkl narrow down what i can submit to the AV companies...
I am running two AV's..the main one is...

Dear group,
Got 'bit' real hard with :downloader32\Bloodhound.Packed\Trojan Agent J...depending on the anti-virus program I'm running..which really hurt my system..took days to get it sorted...I'm...

Tried that....my AV tools scanned and scanned, foun d nothing..I loaded a trojan killer..ran that..nothing.
And the virus keeps coming back..I know what process to shut down to let me get on-line...

Dear Techie Whiz,

I see the Please do not post HJT logs above so....suffice it to say that I tried several prgrams including Lavasoft adAware, spy blaster, sygate AVG6.o and NAV..ended up...

Yes, indeed..gladly..but I will post it later this evening as I have an engagement to attend to right now..and must-do shopping..but I promise I'll have it posted here before I go to bed.
Anyway, if...

Dear Group!
I think I found it! ;-)
PLEASE NOTE THIS....after having tired every fix on the Net i could find, including Tzar [trojan zapper anti-spyware..a really awesome program but it only...

Yes we can create a restore point but shouldn't it just be able to return to a previous date? Either way the computer is so new that we hadn't even thought of making a rstore point yet. We have add...

Not long ago a message on the computer said that a virus was detected called Trojan Horse downloader.alchemic.a. It advised to run AVG to get rid of the virus so we did that but AVG didn't find any...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 5:04:56 PM, on 8/31/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

Dear Group,
I have two problems which I think are related but who knows...here's the first problem, my step-daughter downloaded a file from her boyfriend using trillian and then opened it trusting...