Trojan removal

[Postdog]

I have had a look but can't find anything so far.

Does anyone know of any truly free trojan removers.

I found one which was useless, and I have found others which do a "free" scan but you have to pay for the program.

[fiesata]

Don't waste your time with products that offer to remove trojans etc from your PC often as a pop up aka sacreware

Most antivirus programs will remove trojans - so will many anti spyware programs

I recommend Avast Anti virus along with Spybot S&D, A squared, and even Windows defender - all free. Use in conjunction with a secure browser like Mozilla Firefox and a decent firewall like Comodo Firewall Pro (still free) and you're a way down the road to making and keeping your PC clean

[Postdog]

I have AVG (paid), ad aware, spybot and none of them can get rid. I only know it's there because AVG picked it up.

Apparently, it is not a major Trojan, just annoying that each time I boot up, I get the message that it exists.

[rojash]

What exactly does the message say?

[gramsey438]

Start your machine in safe mode and run a full scan with AVG , Spybot etc, maybe the offending file is locked when trying to delete it.

Word of caution I have had a number of occasions when Spybot has been attacked by a nasty and does not run correctly.... deleting it`s install directory and reinstalling normally resolves the issue.

[Postdog]

I can't start in safe mode as I have a wireless keyboard. As for the message, it is simply a warning thown up by one of the other programs to say it exists every time I boot up. Not booted up since this morning, but it says "small" something or other.

[gramsey438]

Could be that infection has already been healed and just needs the vault inAVG to be emptied. I would suggest you get yourse;g a cheap usb or ps2 keyboard just in case your wireless device starts playing up or if you need to get into safe mode to rectify any issues

[gettinblurry]

While trying to sort out an annoying virus I recently picked up, I came across this page from Castle Cops.

http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal_and _Prevention:_Overview

Between all the downloading & scanning it took about a day to sort out my laptop but the result was excellent. In addition to sorting the virus I now have a much faster machine.