Replies

Ran TrojanHunter... pulled no less than 7 trojans off a computer I *assumed* relatively clean.

Great to hear you have cleaned things up.

I'll add a few things about my experiences:
1. Combination of TrojanHunter with anti-virus software?
When I had the afore-mentioned nasty trojan, TrojanHunter found, highlighted
and snuffed out at least part of the problem. As a novice, I think that what it found
was something in the registry that helped it (TrojanHunter) identify the
offending trojan and know that it needed to remove SOME lines of code of the trojan.
BUT, even after this happened, problems persisted...even after running TrojanHunter,
our Sophos Anti-Viral and Spybot S&D each about three times.

FINALLY, taking a hint from the Sophos reference/knowledge database,
I selected the "delete" option for removing infected files.
Problem ended...Badabingbadaboom.

So, take this with a grain of salt, but my limited experience does at least make
me think that sometimes VERY minor changes in software settings can radically
increase the efficacy of software that identifies and kills "malware".

2. TrojanHunter (3.8) and Spybot S&D compatibility
What was great about these two was that these programs actually run well with
the aged Windows95.
One little thing to note: at least when I run a Sophos anti-viral scan, it returns
"errors" (that have NO positive/negative effect) that basically tell me
that Sophos can't scan the Spybot S&D files.
I'm just mentioning this little wrinkle, so that y'all won't be concerned if your
anti-viral program freaks out after you install Spybot R&D.