Computer Learning

[originunknown]

That Trojan was pretty crafty as every time I downloaded a program it would disable it and I could not use it. Last night I DLed Malawarebyte but could not use it as I kept getting a message it was infected.

This morning after playing around with some of the HiJacker removal tool (which I also could not use either) I changed the settings in IE deleting the proxy server option (as per some instructions on a removal link) and all of a sudden on a lark I tried MALAWAREBYTE and it WORKED!!!! I did a scan and found 8 infections which I was able to delete and then I rebooted and everything seems fine.

I have no idea if changing IE settings was the key (I kinda doubt it) or something else. You would know for sure!!

What is really weird during this whole mess is that MSE was operational but it kept saying there were no threats even when I was getting these major pop-ups and disabilities. AVAST also kept saying it was doing its job but not much help. It seemed like the trojan had fooled MSE and AVAST that all was well when it wasn't.

Anyway, thank you so much for all your help. I was having visions of reformatting my drive and installing a new OS.