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Screen Saver Trojan
KurnDerak
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It seems that whenever my computer goes to a screen saver now, AVG will detect a trojan downloading onto my computer. Well, more specificly, when I use the starfield screensaver that comes standard with XP. It seems to be downloading to D :\system restore. Would be more detailed, but the pop-up vanished when I clicked to make a new thread.
I half want to test to see if it continues to do this with different screen savers, though I also really don't want to do anything that would cause problems.
Firstly, anyone know of any trojan/trojan-related things that would be causing this, and secondly, any very specific cures if AVG doesn't find anything? (running comp scan as I type.) Been doing this for about 2 weeks I would say, though I've only had a screen saver run 3 times during that time.
I half want to test to see if it continues to do this with different screen savers, though I also really don't want to do anything that would cause problems.
Firstly, anyone know of any trojan/trojan-related things that would be causing this, and secondly, any very specific cures if AVG doesn't find anything? (running comp scan as I type.) Been doing this for about 2 weeks I would say, though I've only had a screen saver run 3 times during that time.
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Disable System Restore, do a full scan and report back with your findings.
Hoping its this simple and solve... but I'll be back if it persists.
Edit: Where are my manners? Thanks for the help Amor.
By disabling System Restore, the System Restore data has been deleted, an dany bad shit along with it.