What is it & how fo I get rid of it?

Viruses and worms
1

I’ve been getting this virus in a file called dtran.exe
It’s seen by avast.
I’m running win xp pro.

2

What virus name is reported?
What is the location of the file? (full path)

3

According to pestcontrol (http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo\d\d-tran_trojan.asp) dtran.exe itself is a trojan

4

The path is C:\WINDOWS\walker\

5

The name is Win32 Trojan-Gen (upx!)

6

So I assume you can just move the beast to the Virus Chest, that’s all there’s to do for now…

7

That is correct; however, it continues to return.

8

You can set the on-access scanner protection level to High (click the avast (a) ball tray icon to do this) - this way, the file will be detected immediately after saved to the HDD.

9

Yes, but it would be nice if there was a better way of dealing with it:)