Pesky Trojan Golid
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From: Sunrise Senior Living
Pesky Trojan Golid
PC has been behaving oddly on startup for a while and I was therefore highly suspicious, but Norton found nothing time after time, nor did Trend Micro's online scan. However a similar online scan from Kaspersky discovered Trojan.Win32.Golid.g but gave me no options for dealing with it, It also said the file was C
WINDOWS\system32\ExMenu.dll
Google gives only limited and unhelpful results so my question is can anyone please help me deal with this little pest or can I just locate and delete this file?
Dell Dimension PC, WinXp SP2, AOL 2 Meg BB, NAV, MacAfee Firewall, Netgear Firewall Modem Router
Many thanks
mcdhu
WINDOWS\system32\ExMenu.dll Google gives only limited and unhelpful results so my question is can anyone please help me deal with this little pest or can I just locate and delete this file?
Dell Dimension PC, WinXp SP2, AOL 2 Meg BB, NAV, MacAfee Firewall, Netgear Firewall Modem Router
Many thanks
mcdhu
Joined: Sep 2001
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From: UK
mcdhu :
The following two Anti Virus web sites have information about this ...
McAfee say it's NOT a Trojan virus as such, but is Adware and is knows as
"Adware.IAGold"
Removal instructions are for the use of their anti virus software products, with plenty of info on the McAfee site that may be helpful.
mcafeesecurity.com
symantec.com
Good luck !
Coconutty
The following two Anti Virus web sites have information about this ...
McAfee say it's NOT a Trojan virus as such, but is Adware and is knows as
"Adware.IAGold"
Removal instructions are for the use of their anti virus software products, with plenty of info on the McAfee site that may be helpful.
mcafeesecurity.com
symantec.com
Good luck !
Coconutty
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Joined: Mar 2000
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From: Sunrise Senior Living
Coconutty, Love the name and the 'icon'.
Thanks for your help. As the complete IT technophobe, I thought I'd disable NAV, download a trial version of Kaspersky AV and run that since it was their online scanner that found it in the first place. Happily, it found it and offered to deal with it - an offer which I happily accepted. I hope that's it now!
I don't understand why NAV fails to deal with this sort of thing!
Cheers,
mcdhu
Thanks for your help. As the complete IT technophobe, I thought I'd disable NAV, download a trial version of Kaspersky AV and run that since it was their online scanner that found it in the first place. Happily, it found it and offered to deal with it - an offer which I happily accepted. I hope that's it now!
I don't understand why NAV fails to deal with this sort of thing!
Cheers,
mcdhu
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 1,367
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From: western europe
I don't understand why NAV fails to deal with this sort of thing!
have a look at this symantec link ....
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.iagold.html
note the remark on the Symantec link ....
This risk can be detected only by Symantec products that support security risks. For more information on security risks, please go here.
