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alisaselez
12-16-2006, 12:34 PM
Hi everebody
My computer was infected with a trojan virus today, from a link from someone on msn messenger. I ran AVG Free and the virus went to the vault, which i have deleted and all seems to be running fine now. however, i've had to vault it three times. when I restart, the virus seems to reappear. but my computer is running fine.

but...

there is an icon on my desktop titled winstall.exe which when scanned doesn't contain a virus, but I have just had a quick scan thru some stuff on the internet and get the idea that its a nasty little program that lets other nasty stuff infect my computer I can't delete it, and in fact, am not sure if this is accurate and am a little worried its an important windows file i shouldnt be deleting at all.

I've now installed Avira Antivir as well, as a double up safety precaution, but no spyware detection programs as yet (I'm not even sure if I'm wording that correctly..)

help??
Lots of thanks

seoguyz
12-20-2006, 02:31 AM
As far as i can tell, Winstall.exe is not a windows component...

I advise you get the following (free) programs to be a bit safer:

Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html)

Ad-Aware (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download/fid,7423-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/download.html)