WD Keeps asking permit/deny gogl trojan

[Guest]

Hi,

Running XP and ie7. Everytime I hit the google shortcut on my desktop WD
asks me to take action on this trojan 'gogl' Why wont it go away. Cheers,
Jeff

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Hi,

Running XP and ie7. Everytime I hit the google shortcut on my desktop WD
asks me to take action on this trojan 'gogl' Why wont it go away. Cheers,
Jeff

It sounds as if you may have a trojan:
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/trojqhostsj.html

Bob Vanderveen

 

[Anonymous Bob]

I'm sorry. My first answer is entirely too brief.
Windows Defender is an anti-spyware program and is not an silver bullet for
all the infections that can hit your computer.

Although I've seen better list of online scans, I didn't have the presence
of mind to save them.;-)
That said, here is my list:
http://security.symantec.com
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
http://www.coledata.com/virusalert.htm
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/misc/av.php
http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/activescan-com.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/about_panda/press_room/nanoscan_online_scanner_detects_malware.htm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/
http://www.bitdefender.com/

Good luck and let us know the outcome.

Bob Vanderveen

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bob - it was a trojan- but adaware adwatch wouldn't allow wd to delete
the registry value until I gave it permission manually. Jeff -all okay now

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Thanks - good illustration of the difficulty/complexity of multiple
protective applications.