My friend’s computer which is running the latest AVAST home edition has been infected with the Hacktack backdoor virus.
I don’t understand why I don’t find anything on the entire AVAST site about this fairly old virus, but it is present on quite a lot of other antivirus sites.
Is there an update or tool available to get rid of it ?
(it’s winXP SP2)
Thanks
Maybe because there isn’t an international agreement about virus naming and it could be labeled with other name.
Maybe because avast is not properly set on your friend’s computer.
Maybe because avast should improve detection. Can you (or your friend) send a sample of it to virus (at) avast.com ?
try this
Download and then run SuperAntispyware
[*]On the first page select Check for Updates
[*]On completion select SCAN YOUR COMPUTER
[*]On the next page select COMPLETE SCAN and tick ALL your drives
[*]The next stage will take a while as your entire drive(s), memory and registry are scanned
[*]When it has completed click NEXT
[*]The next screen shows the problems found click OK
[*]On the next screen place a tick against all items and select NEXT
[*]Now to get the log Go to the PREFERENCES button on the right bottom
[*]Select the STATISTICS/LOG tab
[*]Highlight the scan just completed and click VIEW LOG
[*]This will open a notepad text file copy and paste this to your next reply
Thanks for the fast replies and the help, I just sent the info to my friend (who isn’t connecting to the internet until we get this sorted). I’ll post the text file information in here as soon as I get it.
Be used to avast forum speed 8)
We’ll be here to help. Welcome!