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Title: Taskbar and icons disappear, trojan detected
Post by: msu715 on January 12, 2009, 05:25:46 PM

Hey, was hoping someone could help me out with this problem.  I log into my computer, everything is normal for about 15 seconds, then my taskbar and my icons disappear, then reappear continually until my computer ultimately freezes after a few minutes...I was able to do a scan using AVG and turned up lots of malware and trojans...I was able to get rid of the malware, but the trojans aren't going away.  I was wondering what I could do to fix this problem without dropping a lot of money on it. Thanks

Title: Re: Taskbar and icons disappear, trojan detected
Post by: ale52 on January 12, 2009, 05:34:59 PM

Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and go here...

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

download / install / update & run

Also try this...

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/SuperAntiSpyware.html

do the same as above.

Alan <><  :D

Title: Re: Taskbar and icons disappear, trojan detected
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2009, 07:42:31 PM

Read here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html
Start new topic here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html

Title: Re: Taskbar and icons disappear, trojan detected
Post by: msu715 on January 13, 2009, 05:29:56 PM

It won't let me log into the internet in safe mode, any other ways to fix this?

Title: Re: Taskbar and icons disappear, trojan detected
Post by: Broni on January 13, 2009, 06:43:39 PM

Download programs on working computer, and transfer downloaded installation files to bad computer.