From: "owl" <
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| Thanks for your advice, I have downloaded AVG free edition, andamazingly it found 9 trojan
| horses, yet I have subcribed to Norton for2 yrs and it never picked these up. Avg has put
| them in a vault, do notfully understand this, do they just stay there? Have consulted
| theirhelp notes but do not fully comprehend them either, but anyhow basedonthe fact that
| it detected these, I will probably subcribe to the paidversion, do you know if it user
| friendly to people that are not thatexperienced with computer termonology? Once again
| thanks for your time, help and advice, so many things with acomputer are a minefield, but
| i'm still learning and practicing!-- owl
Owl:
No problem. I'm glad that you now have a current AV solution and it found and cleaned some
infectors.
You may want to verify that you are indeed clean of infectors. I have written a front end
to the scanners from; McAfee, Trend Micro and Sophos that you can run "On Demand". They
can be used to make sure your PC is indeed infector free and can co-exist with AVG.
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, this PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to
remove
viruses and various other malware.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE and/or FTP.EXE to go
through your FireWall to allow them to download the needed AV vendor related files.
* * * Please report back your results * * *
