active x trojan

[Guest]

mcafee virus scan turned up the following trojan:
C:/winnt/system32/"actskin4.ocx" generic. cb. I cannot find any information
on this or how to remove it. Can anyone help.

 

[siljaline]

mcafee virus scan turned up the following trojan:
C:/winnt/system32/"actskin4.ocx" generic. cb. I cannot find any information
on this or how to remove it. Can anyone help.

Yes, try the McAfee Forums.
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/

Silj

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[Peter Foldes]

You can read up on this file.
http://www.google.com/search?source...&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-20,GGLD:en&q=actskin4.ocx

 

[siljaline]

:
You can read up on this file.
http://www.google.com/search?source...&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-20,GGLD:en&q=actskin4.ocx

Peter,
While your input is appreciated, anyone can Google for such things
My advice to the OP to seek help at McAfee Forums was likely more
appropriate in this case.

Regards,
Silj

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[Peter Foldes]

Agreed and 100% with you. But I always figure that it is better that the OP understands the implications of what this file is all about.
I find that most if not all posters using the CDO interface have most of the time no idea what is involved with issues that they post.
Since there is no removal info on any of those links that I posted it makes the OP understand the reason that was given by you as to why he\she is told to go the McAfee Forums

 

[Guest]

Your information did the trick. I was able to get this out of my system.
Thank you so very much. It's really great being able to rely on others to
help. Thank you both so much

 

[siljaline]

Your information did the trick. I was able to get this out of my system.
Thank you so very much. It's really great being able to rely on others to
help. Thank you both so much

Sandy,
Thanks for posting back. How exactly were you able to clean up the suspect trojan?

Silj

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[Guest]

Went to the mcafee forum and found out that I needed to turn off system
restore and run the virus scan again. This time I was able to delete the
trojan out of my system. Everything seems to be running normally now. Once
again thanks for your help

 

[siljaline]

Went to the mcafee forum and found out that I needed to turn off system
restore and run the virus scan again. This time I was able to delete the
trojan out of my system. Everything seems to be running normally now. Once
again thanks for your help

Sandy,
Thanks for the feedback.

The reason they had you or suggested to disable System Restore was to "flush"
the archive of any "possible" virus hidden there, this is common practice.

You must understand, though, that you have but one *new* Restore Point
to work with, /in the event/ that you need System Restore.
However unlikely that may be.

Glad to hear that all is well.

Regards,
Silj

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