Trojans in my windows folders

Viruses and worms
1

I did a schedualed virus scan and it seems I have a whole bunch of trojans in my windows and system32 folders. Is it okay to delete these without destroying my computer?

2

NO
the recommend thing to do is send them to the Chest
If one were to turn out to be a false positive you would not be able to recover if you delete

then rt click the avast ball and do update>programs
(just in case)
then open avast and schedule a boot time scan-reboot
again Chest any hits
POST THE LOGS
what OS how much ram which firewall any other scanners on board etc

Step 2
Download and update and run Malware Bytes AntiMalware (Malwarebytes.org)
check all malware found then REMOVE SELECTED- a backup will be made
A Quick Scan is fine for now

then do same thing with Super Anti Spyware
POST THE LOGS

no idea what you are dealing with but the above will get you started

3

here is a copy of TECH’s general procedure since we do not know what we are dealing with here

  1. Clean your temporary files.

  2. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast with archive scanning turned on. If avast does not detect it, you can try DrWeb CureIT! instead.

  3. Use SUPERantispyware, MBAM or Spyware Terminator to scan for spywares and trojans. If any infection is detected, better and safer is send the file to Quarantine than to simple delete than.

  4. Test your machine with anti-rootkit applications. I suggest avast! antirootkit or Trend Micro RootkitBuster.

  5. Make a HijackThis log to post here or, better, submit the RunScanner log to to on-line analysis.

  6. Disable System Restore and then reenable it again.

  7. Immunize your system with SpywareBlaster or Windows Advanced Care.

  8. Check if you have insecure applications with Secunia Software Inspector.

Tech- I just installed Windows Advanced Care on a Vista machine- thanks for the tip

4

What are the file names and the malware name given on the detections, that could give us an idea if it is a file infecter or other malware ?
Check the avast! Log Viewer (right click the avast ‘a’ icon), Warning section, this contains information on all avast detections.

5

Enjoy :wink: