trojan horse downloader.espero.r

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Anyone heard of this?
It interrupts downloads. AVG sees it, says its in an exe in a folder that
doesnt exist. says run anti virus but that doesnt find it. Im trying norton
now.
Al
 
The Voigts said:
Anyone heard of this?
It interrupts downloads. AVG sees it, says its in an exe in a folder that
doesnt exist. says run anti virus but that doesnt find it. Im trying norton
now.
Al
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Checked Google and there is nothing named "espero"......and my spanish is
not all that bad, grin.

False alert? And where does it say it 'doesn't exist'......in a hidden
folder?? Or in System Restore??

Details please.

Heather
 
Yeh I think it was in a system folder


Heather said:
Checked Google and there is nothing named "espero"......and my spanish is
not all that bad, grin.

False alert? And where does it say it 'doesn't exist'......in a hidden
folder?? Or in System Restore??

Details please.

Heather
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Please leave the complete information in your post.......I will now have to
find the original question and see if I can answer you.

Next question, mate. (G) You *think* it is in a system folder.........or
could it be in the _Restore Folder (which is System Restore). I seem to
recall that you are using WinME.......which I use (and love). Even if the
virus is in the System Restore, it will purge itself out.....just don't do a
system restore from the time it went into it. I would explain more clearly,
if *you* would tell me more clearly what in heck you are looking for.

One thing you should do is reduce the size of your System Restore to around
400 to 600 meg. Go to Settings/Control Panel and double click on System.
Click on the Performance Tab and then on File System. You will see a slider
there that you can set back to the above (assuming you have a 40 Gig HD as I
do. Recommended space is 1/12th of your HD.....Click on Apply and OK your
way out.

There is absolutely no virus or trojan named "espero", which means "I hope"
in English, that I can find in Google. Have you tried downloading and
running AdAware 6 for spyware? Some of the antivirus proggies are now
including spyware.

Cheers....Heather
 
This thing is weird the alert dialog came up from avg agian, its name was
trojan horse downloader.espero.s notice the differnce in the last letter,
and it was in an exe that existed which i deleted. But avg was not running
in the system tray I had shut it down. I spose it was still running in the
background.
thanks for the advice ill take it. :)
 
also im running XP


Heather said:
Please leave the complete information in your post.......I will now have to
find the original question and see if I can answer you.

Next question, mate. (G) You *think* it is in a system folder.........or
could it be in the _Restore Folder (which is System Restore). I seem to
recall that you are using WinME.......which I use (and love). Even if the
virus is in the System Restore, it will purge itself out.....just don't do a
system restore from the time it went into it. I would explain more clearly,
if *you* would tell me more clearly what in heck you are looking for.

One thing you should do is reduce the size of your System Restore to around
400 to 600 meg. Go to Settings/Control Panel and double click on System.
Click on the Performance Tab and then on File System. You will see a slider
there that you can set back to the above (assuming you have a 40 Gig HD as I
do. Recommended space is 1/12th of your HD.....Click on Apply and OK your
way out.

There is absolutely no virus or trojan named "espero", which means "I hope"
in English, that I can find in Google. Have you tried downloading and
running AdAware 6 for spyware? Some of the antivirus proggies are now
including spyware.

Cheers....Heather
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Hi Voigts......

Running out and thought I would just tell you that you can manually purge
System Restore (talking about WinME here, but assume XP is the same). You
would lose all your restore points if you did so, but I will get back to you
later.......I am a bit baffled by this 'spanish bug' you appear to have. Is
there somewhere on AVG's website that you can check this one out? I suppose
writing tech support is a silly thing to ask......grin.

Heather
 
This thing is weird the alert dialog came up from avg agian, its name was
trojan horse downloader.espero.s notice the differnce in the last letter,
and it was in an exe that existed which i deleted. But avg was not running
in the system tray I had shut it down. I spose it was still running in the
background.
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Long shot, but see if http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.southghost.html
fits. Make sure you have applied all M$ updates, and check your account
passwords, to ensure they are not defaults, or easy to guess.

Regarding avg, shutting down the control center (system tray icon) does not
shut down the resident scanner.

If you want to shut it down, for example, to run a defrag, double click on
the icon, to open the control center, disable the resident scanner, and then
close the control center.

Regards, Dave Hodgins
 
The said:
Anyone heard of this?
It interrupts downloads. AVG sees it, says its in an exe in a folder that
doesnt exist. says run anti virus but that doesnt find it. Im trying
norton now.
Al
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Try looking at the web site for the product you use. Any time I run into a
found virus with which I am not familiar, I use the Symantec (what we use
at work) list on their site to read up on the virus.

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