Trojan Horse Downloader small 9 bv

[Scooby_snax]

Help
I have the above trojan horse lodged in my System Volume Information/_restore folder and cannot remove it.
AVG software spots it daily but cannot remove (McAffee doesnt spot it)
As a non computer techie can anyone give me directions to remove it please
Cheers
Steve

[wedge girl]

I don't personally know the answer but have found Norton anti-virus home page to be very good for this sort of advice and virus definitions. www.symantec.com

Hope this helps.



>> Edited by wedge girl on Saturday 13th November 20:42

[Scooby_snax]

Thanks wedge girl but this trojan horse isnt listed on the site you mentioned
Steve

[slinky]

How much do you rely on system restore?

If it's not too important to you, I suggest the following...

Right Click My Computer
Properties
System Restore
Turn Off System Restore on all Drives
Apply
Untick TOSRoaD (interesting acronym!)
Apply

Re-Run virus-scan

This will turn off your system restore and remove the crud that's in there...

I use that method, but I don't rely on system restore...

HTH,

slinky

[Scooby_snax]

Slinky
At the risk of being ridiculed what does System Restore do...or is that self evident from the name....ie in Windows XP can you take your system back to a defined point when everything was hunky dory.
If so I have only knowingly used it twice in 2 years.
Are there any dangers in doing what you suggest?
Steve

[slinky]

YHM Fella,

slinky

[rolex]

Online trojan scan here www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/trojanscan.asp