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Hello there everybody,

Last Night I pulled a Trojan off the Web that doesn't seem to slow down my overall performance or anything but has a very annoying downfall - Norton 2007 and Trend Micro 2008 did not remove it, Norton didn't even find it and I have no idea how to even go around doing this from here so basically, I'm asking for help!

All it does (that I know of) is pop up a Windows error message telling me I'm infected and I need to download Anti-Spyware software now - I am given a choice of Yes or No, no matter what I click it opens my browser with a fraud web-page pretending to immitate the My Computer screen and it want's me to download a file called "ieav.exe" from http: //ieav download start. com. Of course I didn't download it or bother in any way. This error message and process only occurs when I change the folder currently being viewed by my explorer, Using the navigation tools or mouse buttons to navigate between folders, if I open one or go back I get it every time, so far I've only noticed that I don't get the message when I open any folder through my start menu, but when I open a folder through a shortcut my explorer.exe fails and Visual Studio 2008 want's me to launch the debugging process.

I'm really clueless from here on and I wish I knew how to get rid of this, I would really appreciate it if someone could help me.

Thank you so much in advance,

-Kevin "Visionary" Erkelenz

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Run an online scan with http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ (use v6.6 as it runs better and quicker than 6.5).

If that doesn't find and remove it, install Spybot - Search & Destroy, update the definitions, then run a full scan on your system.

Let us know how it goes.

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After you've got rid of this pest you might want to consider installing the McAfee SiteAdvisor (from HERE) to warn you about probable malicious websites. There's a free version used & recommended by many on this forum.

Excellent suggestion. :D

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