Swizzor.H

[R.Sendout]

Anyone know what this is?

My computer keeps telling me I have a trojan with the above name and to run AVG to remove it. However have run AVG (with latest update) and it does not find it :confused:

Please help, coz I is a bit fick wen it comes to pooters :wack:

[JB]

Run a full sweep of your hard drive with AVG, rather than specifically searching for that file. It ought to findit then.

[R.Sendout]

Done that, didnt find anything :confused:

[Martin T]

Ahhh the wonders of AVG. Dont know how to kill it on AVG, but on sophos you can boot the computer of a Sophos boot disk and scan the computer and it'll get rid of it.


BTW its a trojan and that means that its designed to let someone to get control of your computer etc. :eek:

[Leon]

with AVG, open the Control centre and ensure that Use Heuristics is ticked.
And make sure all teh boxes above are ticked too.

Did you use Housecall as I suggested? Did that pick it up and get rid for you?

[Nicely]

Does it give any indication where it is? If you've had it a few days, you could now have a dormant copy sat in XP's System Restore too. The only way to get rid of it then is to purge the entitre System Restore.

[Bayside Blue]

Searched on symantec and kapersky cause usually they will have a downloadable removal tool if the checker can't get rid of it, found the name of the virus on kapersky but couldnt find any removers for TrojanDownloader.Win32.Swizzor

Sorry :(

[jules]

Go to the garage and find a sizeable hammer

then return and brandish it menacingly at the computer.

If that fails, check that the option to hide system and hidden files is unchecked

[R.Sendout]

Right, I tried Housecall and that didn't find it. AVG tells me it is in the system restore, how do I purge it?

Scaning with AVG does not find it whatever settings I use :confused:

[Leon]

Right, I tried Housecall and that didn't find it. AVG tells me it is in the system restore, how do I purge it?

Scaning with AVG does not find it whatever settings I use :confused:

Control Panel -> System -> System restore

turn off system restore on all drives, reboot your PC then turn it back on again. that should do the trick

[R.Sendout]

Thanks, will give it a go :)