notepad.exe trojan horse downloader.small.5.aa

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beppe005

I have got this message from AVG antivirus, but I don't know how to remove
it wothout removing notepad.exe
What I understand is that this downloader/trojan replaced notepad... what
can I do?

TIA
Beppe
 
beppe005 said:
I have got this message from AVG antivirus, but I don't know how to
remove it wothout removing notepad.exe
What I understand is that this downloader/trojan replaced notepad...
what can I do?

TIA
Beppe
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beppe:

There are several viruses out there that replace notepad.exe. I would
recommend the following:

1) Do a complete virus scan, Ad-aware, and Spybot S&D scans. When my
notepad.exe was replaced with a trojan, my AV failed to find the virus, but
Ad-aware did.

2) Do a complete search for notepad.exe with Start -> Search and then note
the location, size, modification date and creation date of all of the
notepad.exe files. When my notepad.exe was replaced by a trojan, all my my
notepad.exe files were replaced.

3) Remove the infected notepad.exe files. That is unless they have not
already been removed by your AV, Ad-aware or Spybot S&D.

4) Find a replacement notepad.exe. This may be dependent on the version of
Windows that you are running. You may want to check the MS Knowledge Base:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

for how to replace notepad.exe. I got my replacement for WinXP SP1 at:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/winfiles.html#notepad

5) If you use a text editor a lot, you may want to look for a superior
replacement. There are several FREE notepad replacements such as EditPad,
NoteTab and others.

Good luck,

Steve
 
beppe005 said:
I have got this message from AVG antivirus, but I don't know how to remove
it wothout removing notepad.exe
What I understand is that this downloader/trojan replaced notepad... what
can I do?

TIA
Beppe
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Thank you for your answers.

Ciao
Beppe
 
Steve said:
beppe:

There are several viruses out there that replace notepad.exe. I would
recommend the following:

1) Do a complete virus scan, Ad-aware, and Spybot S&D scans. When my
notepad.exe was replaced with a trojan, my AV failed to find the virus, but
Ad-aware did.

2) Do a complete search for notepad.exe with Start -> Search and then note
the location, size, modification date and creation date of all of the
notepad.exe files. When my notepad.exe was replaced by a trojan, all my my
notepad.exe files were replaced.

3) Remove the infected notepad.exe files. That is unless they have not
already been removed by your AV, Ad-aware or Spybot S&D.

4) Find a replacement notepad.exe. This may be dependent on the version of
Windows that you are running. You may want to check the MS Knowledge Base:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

for how to replace notepad.exe. I got my replacement for WinXP SP1 at:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/winfiles.html#notepad

5) If you use a text editor a lot, you may want to look for a superior
replacement. There are several FREE notepad replacements such as EditPad,
NoteTab and others.

Good luck,

Steve
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redirect txt to sm word or corel as text editor That what I have done
myslef and wast notepafde out right.
 
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