Win32:Adware-AI [Trj]

Viruses and worms
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Greetings-

New to Avast and need a little help, please. Avast listed this virus: Win 32:Adware-AI [trj]
Name: A0091887.ocx
Original Location: C:\System Volume Information_restore…
Last changed: 10/11/2005

I moved to chest as instructed. Unable to find any detail on what this is and what to do with it? I’ve had two recent incidents where I have been the victim of fraudulent activity- credit card and identity. Needless to say, very concerned about anything odd on my PC.

Please help me understand what this is, how I could have been infected, and what I should do to remove. I greatly appreciate your time.

Chris

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It appears to be a bad system restore point.

It best to leave it in a virus chest for a week or so. After that, scan it.

If it’s still detected, you can delete it.

My suggest is to clear all your system restore points and create a fresh new one.

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Thanks for your help.
Is this a virus and if so, is it potentially jeopardizing my online security?
Any idea how I got it?

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It’s actually a trojan.

To put it this way, if you didn’t send the infected restore point to the virus chest and you restored the system back to the previous point, the trojan would reappear.

I suggest:

SuperAntiSpyware Free
MalwareByte’s AntiMalware
Spyware Terminator (Note: If you use this, exclude the Crawler Toolbar, add on, and the ClamAV module at installation)
SpywareBlaster

It seems you don’t have a third party firewall, I also suggest:

Online Armour Personal Firewall
PC Tools Firewall Plus

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Heck. I even recommend turning off system restore (effectively deleting all previous restore points) then re-enabling. Viruses can be pesky little critters when they’re in system restore…

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I did send to the chest. I then turned off system restore, which I confirmed deleted all restore points. I created a new restore point as recomended.

I have Norton Inbound Firewall and Advanced firewall turned on. Is this not sufficient- would I be better off using the Windows firewall?

I’m really dissapointed with the Norton Internet Security 2009. Avast and Malwarebytes found ad-ware that Norton did not.

One last question- how did or might I have gotten this Trojan?

Jtaylor83 and scythe944- I really appreciate your help- thanks again!