Re: XP Home & hacktool

You are safe by following the procedure you mentioned. Once in quarantine
the file is now harmless. Norton does have a way to delete items from there
but, I'm not certain of the procedure. Perhaps someone else can advise if
you can't find it. Running your scans in Safe Mode is not always necessary,
more important if the virus/spyware have penetrated your defenses. This
appears to be an unwanted file picked up while browsing. Since Norton did
not find it anywhere else on your system you are probably OK. A Safe Mode
scan wouldn't hurt or you can do an online virus scan for a second opinion.

Trendmicro
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

BitDefender
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

RAV AntiVirus
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/

eTrust Antivirus
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

Panda ActiveScan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

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~john aka: jopa



"Sandal" <Sandal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:13C50047-C719-48BC-98BE-4B388FA2D2EB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Today as I always do on a weekly basis I updated then ran Norton antivirus
> and for the firsttime in a long time it said " Hack tool Virus" had been
> found, it couldn't repair so gave me the option to quarantine it, which
> I've
> done, but how do
> I remove it or by quarantining have I done enough?
>
> When Norton found Hack Tool Virus it it was in C:\Documents and
> Settings\Sandal\local settings\temporary internet
> files\content.IE5\SDYRO1YJ\4[1].jpg, so I cleared my temporary internet
> files, cookies and so on
>
> I also ran upto date Spybot. Adware, Microsoft-AntiSpy, it's found
> nothing.
>
> None of the above scans was done in safe mode, have I done enough, is the
> infected file safe/removed or do I need to go further.
>
>
> --
> Sandal


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