I Shot And Killed A Horse Today…A Trojan Horse!

Bloody viruses, worms, trojan horses, who sits around thinking these things up?

The past couple of days I noticed that AVG was crashing each time after a scan. I ignored it for a while but today curiosity got the better of me and so I decided to check out the scan logs and see what was going on in there.

To my horror I found that there were some warnings about trojan horses in the system! They were;

trojanhorsedownloader.bandoadAHZS and trojanhourse.generic12.BGE1

Just typing it makes me nervous….

Naturally the first thing I did was Google it to see just how bad it was (anything with a name like that couldn’t be good right?).

After a few quick searches I decided that these little trojan horses had to go and sooner rather than later.

I found a link to the MajorGeeks Forum and they had some solutions for getting rid of malware but it seemed like a ‘major’ pain in the neck to me (and hip pocket as some of the solutions where paid software).

I decided to do a little more hunting around to see what I could find. I came across a thread in the AVG forum which seemed like it might work.

Some how this breed of trojan horse attached itself to the restore files in the system. Now I’m not a major geek but I know that your computer remembers dates so that you can restore your PC if something goes wrong (which obviously won’t work when you’ve got little horses in there running wild).

The fix was too simple to be true really, just get rid of all the restore points on your PC and trojan horse be gone!

I decided to make a quick video of the process just in case any one else using AVG comes up against this little devil.

And if any of you trojan horse breeders out there happen to read this, leave me alone ya buggers. I’m just a simple little Internet marketer goin’ about my business, haven’t you got better things to do with your time?

Hey did you ever wonder if the spyware and malware software producers create these viruses so they can sell there stuff?

Just a thought .