trojan viruses- please help

Viruses and worms
1

I have ran Avast home edition and i can’t get rid of Trojan viruses

win32:downloader-ib
win32:small-ahy
win32:small-bsj

the viruses are in the following files

func.exe
qwinoldt.exe
tk58.exe
tk58[1].exe
a0053508.exe

is there any other software i can use to remove these or should i backup all my files and re-format my drive.

2

Why can’t you ‘get rid of them,’ what errors or warnings are displayed ?

When you talk of ‘getting rid of them’ I hope you don’t meant delete (although in this case they seem to be valid detections). Deletion isn’t really a good first option (you have none left), ‘first do no harm’ don’t delete, send virus to the chest and investigate.

If you have XP or Win2k, you could enable a boot time scan. Right click the avast icon, select Start avast! Antivirus, Menu, ‘Schedule boot-time scan…’ Or see http://www.digitalred.com/avast-boot-time.php.

There is no need to re-format that is an action of last resort and you are a long way from that.

It is advisable to have a multi-application/level approach to protection as one piece of software is likely to provide 100% protection.

There are specialist tools for anti-spyware and this added to anti-virus generally gives a better overall protection/detection level.

If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode.

  1. If using winXP AVG anti-spyware (formerly Ewido) Resident scanner during trial On-Demand after trial ends. Or SUPERantispyware On-Demand only in free version. Or Spyware Terminator Resident scanner.
  2. Spywareblaster Don’t install this until you are clean.
3

Backups are always good, but its way too early to even think about a reformat.