Tankus Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 New AVG download just found a trojan called swizzer on me comp ...Avg is still running a test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Just started an A2 scan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Google only found one reference to it.UK ForumsApparently it's a hijacker - thought this part was interesting though.More current variants also install a small web server, contained in a file named svchost32.exe. It adds several google addresses (google.de, google.ch, google.ca, etc) search.yahoo.com, and search.msn.com to the HOSTS file, telling windows that the IP addresses for those sites is 127.0.0.1, and that's where it's webserver is listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted May 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 well ...Avg just cleared this after a half hour scan ....and guess what ....I can access the pit again .....hmmmm....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Scan clear no problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted May 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 woowzer ....all my page loading has sped up ........I wonder what was happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devanski Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 well ...Avg just cleared this after a half hour scan ....and guess what ....I can access the pit again .....hmmmm....?Could artist have the same problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 well ...Avg just cleared this after a half hour scan ....and guess what ....I can access the pit again .....hmmmm....?Could artist have the same problem? I did some scans :rolleyes: - paranoid now...........nothing! I am getting in the pit more often now - maybe sort itself out eventually.Gonna keep an eye out for any funny bits.........scan every day for a few days.One odd thing though - when I did the 'symantic' free security check, it said there was 'no known virus protection' ????Were they hoping for a sale? - if not why didn't AVG show up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Were they hoping for a sale?I think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Just updated AVG and did a scan and I had two variants of swizzer on my computer which have been deleted from the virus vault.In the past two weeks AVG has stopped seven viruses, it is a pity it cannot catch the virus writers and strangle them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Wraith Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Well I've had this Downloader.Swizzer S trojan on my PC for days now and for the life of me I can't get rid of it.... helllllllllllllllllp. I cant stay booted up for more than a few minutes at a time. AVG has detected it but as soon as I start my virus scan it reboots the system.Could this be a defensive strategy by the virus/trojan writers???It's starting to get :censored: annoying... considering I'm supposed to be writing a webpage and all my stuff is on my PC and not the wife's which I'm using to write this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Hallo Shadow Wraith! :welcome: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Shadow Wraith have you tried running a virus scan whilst in safe mode or sceduling a boot time virus scan!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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