I downloaded the yahoo toolbar with IE7. Since, I am getting all types error messages. One trojan was found in my system. Now, it still runs like crap and I am getting the same messages after uninstalling and running a system recovery. Can someone please help me?
2006-11-03 11:42:24 · 7 answers · asked by pinktink 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Install a good antivirus program. here you have some free choices:
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2006-11-03 18:30:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your trojan won't have come from IE7 or the toolbar but some other source. Be wary of the previous answer. No browser is perfect and that includes Firefox.
You could try using this virus scanner, which should find your trojan and disinfect your system. F-Secure, who offer this scanner, are a well respected online security company.
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols...
If this doesn't work try free online scanners from Trend, McAfee and alike.
To stop yourself getting infected again, once you have removed your virus, I suggest you use install this excellent free anti-virus software on your computer. I have used this for years and it has always served me well
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tp...
I'd also make sure you have a Firewall on your computer which will provide another layer of protection from hackers. Zone Alarm is widely used.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en
Finally get a decent spyware scanner. Yahoo! toolbar comes with a anti-spyware scanner and Microsoft also has a decent free anti-spyware scanner
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Hope this helps and good luck!
2006-11-05 15:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by Tonky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look for the complete and latest review of IE7. All the problems relating to the ie7 are properly dealt with in this article.
http://chandan.myblog.com/76782.html
Good Luck
2006-11-05 17:52:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If IE is your basically browser, you does no longer have any way of downloading a sparkling replica. The Trojan is residing on your computing device in a separate record and the probability is that deleting IE does no longer get rid of it. once you load up your new replica of IE, it would grow to be contaminated and the registry might exchange.
2016-10-15 08:37:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably did'nt come with IE7,but you can uninstall it and reinstall it after you do a full virus scan.
2006-11-03 12:11:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a good list of free virus removal tools here, also has some good info on how to avoid stuff like this.http://www.basicspywaretips.com/getridofspyware.html
2006-11-03 12:11:07 · answer #6 · answered by Tyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give up using Windows, and install Linux on your computer. Linux is immune to all viruses, malware, spyware and adware.
Go to www.distrowatch.com to find out how to get all the popular flavors of Linux...
...then do an image search for Linux screen grabs on Google.
BE COOL - GET LINUX
DC :)
2006-11-06 06:02:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋