SYTEM: Old Dell, XPSP2, 800MHz, 512meg
History: Over 9 months ago I installed 2 really stupid games, and used a ‘KEYGEN’ that my friend gave me. At the time I was using Zone Alarm internet suite, every thing tested out OK. Over a long slow time frame my internet connection started to become very unstable, And I was getting a lot of intermittent system errors. It got to the time to just shut down and reformat everything and start from scratch.
Since then my friend introduced me to AVAST! (nice program).while reinstalling my programs I came to these 2 dumb games. when I hit the ‘keygen’ I was supprised when Avast came up with the virus found screen. being new to Avast and not sure which option I should take I decided to click on the [ X ] at the top of the window to close the screen, so I could ask my friend about it later. I then installed the second game and did the same thing. Then it occurred to me that after closing the screen, the executable program was not stopped.
Questions:
- By closing the warning box did I circumvent the virus checker and infect my system? -or- Did Avast actually save my system after all by just stopping that part of the executable file?
- If a ‘Trojan’ has been allowed to be executed on a system, will Avast still find and remove what ever the Trojan did and fix it? -or- Will it have to be found & removed manually??
- I have searched the forum and the Avast web site and have not found any sort of manual removal steps. Where can I go to find this if I need it??
According to the Avast Data Base
Virus 1: Win32:Fabot [trJ] Avast database lists it as an executable and Com Trojan.
Virus 2: Win32:Hupigon-LZO [trJ] Avast database lists it as a Com Trojan.
- What dose this actually mean?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
James
Disclaimer: I’m not a supporter of piracy, however these really simple share ware games
I use as a stress reliever. I would pay the $2.95 for each program, but I just do not like putting
my Credit card number over the internet.
Don’t look know,
but their’s a puppy doing the disco on my leg…