Trojan on external hard drive- help

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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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  • Profile picture of the author 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.

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    Originally Posted by Nutrifitness View Post

    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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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    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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  • Profile picture of the author MarkOwens
    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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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      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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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Dalton
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nutrifitness
    actually the scan finally completed and AVG removed and healed all of them...so do you think I need further action?..esp on E drive
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Trojans are EASY to get rid of if you know about them. Just DELETE them! Until you do, don't run them.
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