Trojan on external hard drive- help

14 years ago

I used to use AVG. It's very good but, it seems to me that Avast does a better job. I plugged my Android into my PC and Avast immediately found a trojan and killed it.

George Wright

Originally Posted by Nutrifitness

I'm running AVG and have several Trojan on both c drive and on my new Seagate external hard drive..will putting in virus vault help at all? ...what should I do?

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Nutrifitness

14 years ago

Originally Posted by George Wright

I used to use AVG. It's very good but, it seems to me that Avast does a better job. I plugged my Android into my PC and Avast immediately found a trojan and killed it.

George Wright

scan is still running but I don't think this could be healed...don't know if putting it in virus vault is ? deleting it off both drives as well

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theunknownthem

14 years ago

I tend to delete anything with trojans or viruses. I've never been sure what the vault is for. If it can't clean it, you can't open it, what's the point of putting it in the vault?

Maybe there is a reason but I don't know what it is.

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Nutrifitness

14 years ago

Originally Posted by theunknownthem

I tend to delete anything with trojans or viruses. I've never been sure what the vault is for. If it can't clean it, you can't open it, what's the point of putting it in the vault?

Maybe there is a reason but I don't know what it is.

ya I don't either ...if it can't be cleaned then I just just delete them all?

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Troy_Phillips

14 years ago

I have the paid version of avg and am still trying to get back to where I was before the last virus basically destroyed my hard drive

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MarkOwens

14 years ago

If the virus is on your external harddrive, it most likely executes everytime you plug the harddrive onto your computer (autorun feature). These files will most likely be hidden, read this on a way to remove it.

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rosetrees 14 years ago

I would try downloading malwarebytes (malwarebytes.org) and scanning both your computer and the external drive.

It's the best anti malware program that I know ( at the moment) and will remove most things.
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Jay Dalton

14 years ago

I use AVG and am not 100% on this but here it goes. I to had the same problem and was advised to install the vault which i did. AVG found the trojan and then asked did I want to move it to the vault as it couldn't kill it so I accepted and moved it to the vault then run another scan and it didn't show. So my advice is to install the vault as it does your system no harm.