For the last two weeks I have tried opening yahoo mail account and my systems virus warning goes off stating that a Trojan had tried to enter.
I had a brand new lap top that did not have the virus protection yet and with in hours it totally crashed. Thank God it was new, I was able to exchange it. The man at the store said they have attached trojans that open with an attachment and then every time you try to open yahoo. the trojan appears.
Is there a way to fix this? if not I am switching to hotmail...of course there is no preventing it from there either?
2007-02-27 23:06:37 · 4 answers · asked by jsbrownson 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
The answer is in your second paragraph - get virus protection installed on the PC. If it did not come with a virus program, then go to http://download.com and get AVG Free.
Also, since a Trojan is most often not a virus, but a kind of spyware, you need to install a couple of spyware programs and run them regularly. Go to http://download.com and get both Skybot Seek&Destroy and Ad-Aware SE Personal. Both are free. Alternate between them every time you scan the PC, as they use different definitions of what is a "spyware", so one may get something the other one missed.
Finally, whoever told you that they can attach a trojan to yahoo was mistaken. If the Trojan was coming from your e-mail, you would have had to opened the one specific e-mail to which it was attached to get it. Simple deleting all your mail would have gotten rid of it (if you do not know which e-mail it was in). But it is more likely that you got infected once, and with no virus scanner never cleared it. So it kept popping back up everytime you opened anything on the Internet (such as Yahoo).
So, get a virus scanner and get/run a spyware scanner to fix the problem.
2007-02-27 23:16:06 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scan your system with Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software.
2007-02-27 23:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by Mortis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to yahoo shopping and find a free antivirus or to majorgeeks.com
2007-02-27 23:22:56 · answer #3 · answered by Elvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try going to http://www.trendmicro.com/hc_intro/default.asp run their free anti virus program and see if it is on your comp if it is this will also remove it
2007-02-27 23:10:37 · answer #4 · answered by iplaywhenican 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋