Trojan Horse Downloader 13 generic

[PEV]

My AVG Free detected and removed Trojan Horse Downloader 13 generic to the virus vault where it is described as secure. Is the normal procedure to click on 'remove' to get rid of it?

 

When I first had the notification of the virus detection I 'Googled it' and was disturbed to see many people got infected despite using AVG Free - however that seems to have been going back several years.

 

A respected member of this forum sent me a link to help me download a more recent version of Google Earth and despite his warning to check it out before trusting it as he could not guarantee the source I pretty dumbly started to download and hey presto' hello Me Trojan Horse'! LESSON LEARNED HOPEFULLY!

Anyway I'm just going to remove it from the virus vault unless there is anything else to do?

Ray

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Ray, to be on the safe side as with trojan downloaders you don't know if it did download and hid something nasty, I recommend you follow all that Starbuck asks for here:-

 

http://extremetechsupport.com/threads/10689-Before-posting-for-Malware-Removal-help..WinXP-Vista-and-Win7

 

Then copy and paste the results in this thread for one of the guys to check out for you, better safe than sorry.

 

Don't as yet empty the quarantine till they say it is OK to do so, it can't do any damage while locked up out of the way, however the guys may want to have a deeper look at it.

 

Nev.

[Starbuck]

Hi Ray,

 

Nev gave you good advice:

Don't as yet empty the quarantine till they say it is OK to do so,

 

This isn't the first time that Avg has had this problem.

http://forums.avg.com/gb-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=230872

 

It may well be a false positive.

Can you tell me exactly what the file and the path for it is?

It should tell you in the settings of Avg somewhere.

I have never used the program so are not familiar with the actual settings.

 

The alternative is to restore the file from the AVG quarantine and then run a MBAM scan.

If MBAM flags it up, you'll know it needs removing.

Let me know how you get on and then we'll decide on the next course of action if necessary.

Edited August 27, 2013 by Starbuck

[PEV]

guys. I tried the Malware download and it froze my PC for about 15 mins. However I have done a full PC scan with my AVG Free and a full scan with my existing version of Malware Bytes which I updated 148 days and which found 3 objects which have been removed.

I have now removed the trojan Horse 13 from the virus vault which is now empty.

Not quite as requested by you but hope it will be sufficient?

By the way another 'threat' was detected by AVG and k

ept away it was called 'blackhat vulnerability something' but as no record of it on my sysytem I am not sure of the details.

Ray