Removing Trojan Virus..

[Flossie]

Hi,

I downloaded a file from the internet and i checked it for Virii , None was
found. I opened it up and installed it and then AVG opens a box and says "
VIRUS FOUND: Dropper.Bridge.A " . I have disabled System Restore and run AVG
but it refuses to remove it from the System Restore.

Can anyone explain what i have done wrong. Thanks.

 

[K.Pradeep Kumar]

Check this discussion form:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?&act=ST&f=12&t=148169

 

[Jim Macklin]

You must turn system restore off to purge the files. System
restore files are protected and can't be cleaned.

Turn system restore off, do a virus scan and then you can
turn system restore back on. You can purge all but the last
restore point by using disk clean-up/more and if you have
rebooted with a clean system you'll have a new clean restore
point without the virus.


| Hi,
|
| I downloaded a file from the internet and i checked it for
Virii , None was
| found. I opened it up and installed it and then AVG opens
a box and says "
| VIRUS FOUND: Dropper.Bridge.A " . I have disabled System
Restore and run AVG
| but it refuses to remove it from the System Restore.
|
| Can anyone explain what i have done wrong. Thanks.
|
| --
| Regards,
|
| Paul
|
|

 

[Richard Harris]

AVG is a big pile of steaming poo when it comes to removing virus' from a
machine so i found out to my cost. It decided to remove (quarentine) any any
programs that had the Pinfi virus thus causing my PC not to boot. I managed
to boot into safe mode and do a restore, after i'd bought Norton Antivirus

Rich

 

[Steve Nielsen]

You've done nothing wrong except use a word that doesn't exist; "virii"
is not a word

If you turned off system restore then there is no restore point to
delete anything from.

Start up in Safe Mode and then scan again.

Steve

 

[Plato]

I downloaded a file from the internet and i checked it for Virii , None was
found. I opened it up and installed it and then AVG opens a box and says "
VIRUS FOUND: Dropper.Bridge.A " . I have disabled System Restore and run AVG
but it refuses to remove it from the System Restore.

Reboot after you disable system restore, it _should_ remove the past
restore points.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I downloaded a file from the internet and i checked it for Virii , None was
found. I opened it up and installed it and then AVG opens a box and says "
VIRUS FOUND: Dropper.Bridge.A " . I have disabled System Restore and run AVG
but it refuses to remove it from the System Restore.

The virus has got into a System restore point before AVG got at it and
removed it from the main system. It can do not harm unless you restore
to that point. So wait for a new one to be made (or make one for
yourself), then go to
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup
and in the More Options click the button at the bottom to delete all but
that most recent point - the one the virus is in will go, taking the
virus with it