To-night on my holidays I visited the home of a 14 year old cousin of my wifes’ . He has a small computer, and it suddenly went off the internet and closed down in between. IE page showed about.blank. This youngster should install a proper firewall and a good AV solution, I will help him with that, and work towards this next Friday. On scanning his comp with spyaudit trojan rtb 666 was found up, but the common trojan files I could not find. The hacker might have been there longer.
How to get rid of this one trojan, more were not found. Or shall we politely tell him that he has learnt a lesson this way, and advice him to do a clear install, complete with Avast and Zonealarm installed, or is this too drastic thinking? Please advice.
Here is the follow up, to-day I visited the fourteen-year old, had a CD with Avast and ZoneAlarm Free on it. I installed it Avast in Polish and Zone-Alarm in English, instructed the bloke on how to work the two programs, did an update on both.
On running Avast before going to the net, I scanned all of C://
There was a P2P virus found as wuwua.exe in Downloaded\Program Files\wuwua.exe. Could not clean it out, could not shove it to the chest, so I had to kill and delete it with Avast. Now the boys’ computer is clean, and I hope he is happy. Avast registered, sending greetings to Vlk in the registration mail. Another young Polish lad happy. This brought a smile to my face. PS Anyone know what kind a virus was hidden in wuwua.exe? Any of our Polish forum members know what it could have been. Was it from an infected CD with games, CD z grami!? I hate those CD’s.