How do I get rid of a Downloader-awx Trojan virus?

Question

I have McAfee and it seems to be useless!

Answer 1

Try the following

Online scanners
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/
http://www.f-secure.com/solutions/home.shtml

File assessment (useful for email attachments or for suspicious files)
http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexf.html

HijackThis (a good program for seeing what is running on your computer)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html#r

Only other thing you can do is delete the virus manually, Start in safe mode, find the virus file, rename it. then once you restart you will be able to delete it.

Answer 2

get your computer on safe mode . . . I restarted my computer and then pressed F8 . . . once in safe mode, run a MCAFEE virus scan . . . it should locate the downloader trojan and get rid of it . . . then re-start your PC once again and it will be gone . . . try mcafee.com and their message boards for further info . . .

Answer 3

go to Kimkamando .com
use her shareware of free AVG
and adaware

with Mcafee you have to go into the program and set a block for that trojan


I have Trend Micro now....no more Mac...

Answer 4

Uninstall mcafee.. go for norton 2006

Answer 5

Download the yahoo toolbar... that works pretty well with most spyware. Or try ad-aware from lavasoft.

Answer 6

If you have its address on your computer, backspace the file name and leave the folders and subfolders, then click run, then paste in the file path and delete it manualy

Answer 7

Macintosh! You won't need a virus scanner.

Answer 8

re set up your computer settings or computer systems,look in the computers manuel thing.