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Aegnon

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System Restore and Trojan Horse Infection
« on: October 05, 2007, 06:38:34 PM »
Hi, all:  I have just survived a terrible trojan-ace-x infection.  It took 4 different spyware programs and 3 days of work to get rid of it, but it appears to be gone now. I was only using SpySweeper, it would find it, remove it, then it would reinstall itself and I was back to where I started.   This is my question:  as a part of the work of getting rid of it, I turned off System Restore when running in safe mode and ran SpySweeper and AdAware.  (Infection reinstalled itself after that.)  I then ran the multiple spyware programs in standard mode and successfully removed the trojan horse.   Now that the infection appears to be gone, is it safe to turn System Restore back on?  Should I go back into safe mode and re-run all the spyware programs BEFORE turning System Restore back on?  Thanks!  Aegnon

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Re: System Restore and Trojan Horse Infection
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2007, 07:23:36 PM »
You may go back to safe Mode, and run all safety programs, you have, just to make sure, you are clean.
Then, you restart in normal mode, turn system restore on, and create Restore Point.
You may also post your HJT log here, and someone will take a look.

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Re: System Restore and Trojan Horse Infection
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2007, 08:42:51 PM »
Broni, Thanks!  I'll do that.

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Re: System Restore and Trojan Horse Infection
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2007, 09:18:43 PM »
Let us know, how it went.