I know this has been discussed but for the life of me I cannot find the threads I'm looking for and yes I have done several searches..

Anyway, my particular problem is this: While surfing today on one of the new surfing programs my Norton window popped up, said it had detected a virus on my computer, the file was trojan something. I had to click the window about 6 times to get it to close. I ran a scan but found nothing, did a search for trojan* on my computer but still nothing.

Should I be concerned?

I run Win XP, Norton Antivirus w/ auto updates, ZoneAlarm free firewall.
I was using I.E. browser
I don't have a trojan scanner, I've used the free trial of Trojan Hunter in the past but never found anything on my computer with it.

Suggestions anyone?

thanks

http://housecall.trendmicro.com

also panda's online scan but I can't remember the link. Do a web search and you'll find it.

I run both plus my AV because none of them catch all.

Happy trojan hunting

this link should help, its the top online scanners

http://antivirus.about.com/cs/softwarerevi...tp/aaonline.htm

Thanks, I happen to be looking at
http://www.anti-trojan-software-reviews.com/

right now.

I just downloaded ewido's free trial, ever tried it? figured it was worth try.

I need all the help I can get with these things.

was going to try the Panda software but since Mobile was too lazy to get me the link I had to search on my own

You're too lazy to search for "panda online scan" and you blame me? Women

Here you go http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/co...n_principal.htm

and

http://housecall.trendmicro.com

gotcha to get it for me didn't it

you know I love ya mobile

Lol,
thanks guys very good info here,
i am currently using McAfee, is it good?

Global*Money

Global*Money,

You are probably better off using a combination of the above in addition to what you are using now. No ONE product can do it all.


Aaron and Shara

Okay, thanks for the great advice, guess it would be really important to keep my computer safe as i am going to do FULL time online business in another 5 days.
Cant afford any virus, spyware etc

Thanks


Global*Money

Used by a woman...

as usual...

Tought someone was putting up a website with harmful trojan virus in that new surfing program. Luckly you have some anti virus protection in your computer system.

If you remembered the website you surfed, try to make a report to the program owner. It will save others from being infected by that viruses.

My antivirus detected that trojan virus too, but i was surfing TGT and 4daily at the same time, cant catch that virus website.
We should all report any website that has any trojan and keep the surfing world safe

wish I knew which site it was

I was taking a nap while I was surfing though

TrendMicro AV+FireWall combo is the best i have found.
I used Panda AV and firewall but this wasn't as good as TM and missed couple of times.

TrendMicro+Trojan Hunter ..I tried several trojan detectors,this is the best ,while others sleeping this one alerted me several times,indicating over opened ports,the executable files and so on,not to mention there is full support for this one in case help required.

I think Paidsurfing said that someone deliberately put a virus in one of the sites in their program but have cleaned it out. Still, we see the danger in the surfing programs.

Pipster, could you gives us the sites for TrendMicro+Trojan Hunter. Will just these two keep us as safe as we can be? Or do we need others?

http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desk...te/overview.htm
Combo of FireWall and AV.
Out of Norton,Mcafee and Panda i find this one the best and requiring less resources from your system as well.

http://www.misec.net/trojanhunter/
The best Trojans detector with excellenet support provided if required thorugh suto submitter in program itself as well as with program forum.

Some free extras.

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Think with these you would have no worries.

Can use Annonymizer too ,have one but barely use it.

Also even if you were hit by Trojan..you may want to use this

http://www.roboform.com/

With that encrypting and generating unique passwords even if there key logger on your hard drive..you are safe..none of your passwords can be revealed or recorded.

and last one i like to use is ; http://www.firetrust.com/

MailWashr pro..getting all my mail from all my pop3 email addresses gathers into this and reading bouncing delting or replying to emails on the server rather than on your hard drive...that way with tons of worms attachments and other crap..nothing can reach your hard drive through emails...there is free version i think limited to one email account.I truly like these ones and FEEL VERY GOOD

Thank You kindly!

I think that this site will help , it contains many anti virus programes , firewals , browsers , anti trojans , spyware tools , driver tools and many other programs , I can't enumerate them all ... , there're many free editions of these programs .

here's the link of the site : http://www.majorgeeks.com

hope that helps

As you said norton antivirus detected virus when u were surfing and it might have removed it from ur temporary internet files.

Norton Antivirus is the best and it keeps ur computer safe.Keep updating it to track the latest viruses.

Through trojan anyone can control your computer by getting ur IP Address
I think your anitvirus have done its work and removed the trojan.You can cross check whether its has been installed on ur comp

Go to run command and type msconfig and go to startup tab to see any unknown program running in background.

Trojans mostly resides in windows folder.

Uncheck the box in startup tab if u think its a trojan or scan that file with ur antivirus.

Hope this helps...

rockystone,

thanks for the info, I did what you said but there are a few programs I'm not sure about... how do I know for sure what they are?

thank you

thx for sharing

Hi All,

i'm using norton internet security (with anti-virus+firewall).

is it necessary to have mutiple firewalls/anti-virus. Can they co-exist in a single PC?

So far norton has serve me well.

Thanks for any input.

Yes, you can use more than one firewall in your system but it isn't recommended. You can put yourself in trouble if you don't configure it correctly.

It is said that it's better to have one correctly configured firewall than 10 poorly configured firewalls

If Norton works well for you then you should stick to it. For me it takes too much system resources and Norton firewall isn't exactly the best firewall on the market.

Thanks moneyman for the advice.