Yesterday avira free edition picked up this trojan "TR/CRYPT.ZPACK.GEN."
The trojan wont seem to delete, i tried, Delete Quartine and yet it still keeps appearing. I ran avira and found 12 virues and repaired all of them as it was the only opition that came up. I restarted my computer and as it turned on I got the warning "TR/CRYPT.ZPACK.GEN." is a unwanted program. The weird thing is that two different warning pop-up come up for this trojan. Any advice how to get rid of this?
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start in safe mode, re-run avira.
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^^yup. F8 on start up and run it again.
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When i'm running malware bytes or Avira, in Safemode my laptop after a few minutes shuts down by itself.
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Now when i load my laptop in regular mode i get "Critical error" Ram memory usage is to high failiure" and "Windows cant find hard-drive space" -
I uninstalled avira and installed avast and found no viruses...
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No AV product is perfect. As a rule, they don't all find the same viruses... there is some overlap for the very common ones, but the less common ones are sometimes not found by many AV products.
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You can't trust any AV software running on a possibly compromized system.
That said, you should better scan your computer using a (or better: at least two) Live CD. Most manufacturers of AV software makers offer such a CD for download.
Depending on the findings (note: you can't clean a compromized system), you should consider reinstalling your system.
Michael -
id adivese you to have kapersky on a usb and plug it in wen you need it most that seems to always do it for me
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I think i solved the problem. I uninstalled avira and avast and D.L, NORTON 2011 90 day trial and it seemed to catch the virus and delete it. How can i make sure of this? Should I download Norton again on a different computer and put it in my flash drive? How would i run a AV software from a flash drive?
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It describes how you can put the program SARDU on an USB-stick.
Sardu combines several bootable AV ISO's, which run outside Windows.
Therefore you can scan all Windows files without running them in memory.
Sardu combines Avira, BitDefender, Dr.Web, F-Secure, G-DATA, Kaspersky and Panda AV.
Mind you, running a scan with all these, will/might take longer than actually reinstalling Windows and it will certainly take longer than restoring a backup OS image.
However, Sardu gives you the most AV's in just one bootable USB-stick.
Website Gizmo/TechSupportAlert also has this extensive list of security software, just search for the portable apps.
cheers.
Trojan wont delete.
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by CompUG, Dec 26, 2010.