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I have 2 PCs one for home one for the office both running Windows XP home
it is the home one in question.
I have over the last few days decided to get to grips with this PC with
excellent support from Windows help & support.
Installed for some time among other things are
Zone-Alarm, Spy-Bot, Norton anti-virus and Ad-Ware
all are kept bang up-to-date and used religiously.
As an exercise I decided to look for and install a free trojan
scan & remover and found one at irsoftware.org on a 30 day trial.
Much to my surprise it found some spy-ware and a trojan called Nemog,
I ran the scan again but this time all it found was the spyware, no Nemog,
where has it gone ,I had done nothing to remove it?
With Nemog firmly planted in my head I went looking for help and
came across rickrogers.org useful site on starting in safe mode
and his advice on how to remove a Trojan.
Question, after starting in safe mode and then start/search/files&folders,
then typing in Nemog the search came up with nothing, does this mean I have
no trojan or do I still have to search the registry?
Question, is there any benefit to be gained when running a weekly virus scan
to do it in safe mode, is it more thorough?
Question, can anybody direct me to a site where I can download a free
no trial trojan scan & remover that can be updated or should my
Norton anti-virus be doing a trojan check for me?
This is probably not for here but what the hell, while surfing I came across
this story.
With incredulity firmly in place I checked it out and stone me if it doesn't
have some meat to it.
Recently, in the UK, 280 people out of 500 were persuaded either
face to face or on the phone to part with their NI Num and their
banking and password details, the bribe,
a bar of chocolate, F---ME!
it is the home one in question.
I have over the last few days decided to get to grips with this PC with
excellent support from Windows help & support.
Installed for some time among other things are
Zone-Alarm, Spy-Bot, Norton anti-virus and Ad-Ware
all are kept bang up-to-date and used religiously.
As an exercise I decided to look for and install a free trojan
scan & remover and found one at irsoftware.org on a 30 day trial.
Much to my surprise it found some spy-ware and a trojan called Nemog,
I ran the scan again but this time all it found was the spyware, no Nemog,
where has it gone ,I had done nothing to remove it?
With Nemog firmly planted in my head I went looking for help and
came across rickrogers.org useful site on starting in safe mode
and his advice on how to remove a Trojan.
Question, after starting in safe mode and then start/search/files&folders,
then typing in Nemog the search came up with nothing, does this mean I have
no trojan or do I still have to search the registry?
Question, is there any benefit to be gained when running a weekly virus scan
to do it in safe mode, is it more thorough?
Question, can anybody direct me to a site where I can download a free
no trial trojan scan & remover that can be updated or should my
Norton anti-virus be doing a trojan check for me?
This is probably not for here but what the hell, while surfing I came across
this story.
With incredulity firmly in place I checked it out and stone me if it doesn't
have some meat to it.
Recently, in the UK, 280 people out of 500 were persuaded either
face to face or on the phone to part with their NI Num and their
banking and password details, the bribe,
a bar of chocolate, F---ME!
