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Posted by corsten_addict on Nov-11-2002 23:45:

MiRC and Trojan Horses??

Hi everyone, I don't know who can help me, but here goes.

I've got a trojan horse on my computer - it's something similar to a virus. But it's proving very hard to get rid of. I have Norton Antivirus and also PC-Cillin, and I performed McAfee's online virus scan, but I can't get rid of this trojan horse.

They all recognize that my computer is infected, and I keep deleting these files, but I have a sneaking suspiscion that the trojan horse is still on my computer.

Why?

This suspiscion is from the fact that MiRC boots up at startup ALL THE TIME and I've never even downloaded it or know what it is. I'm pissed because it screws around with my computer and eats up memory. It gives me random messages at the worst times.

I tried uninstalling MiRC from the control panel, but it wouldn't let me and even if I managed to, it started up again. Furthermore, I've updated all the virus definitions of my virus programmes, and also deleted registry keys, but this fcuking programme is still appearing!

Someone PLEASE help.. I hate these stupid things!

FYI, it's not the Trojan.iRC Bounce or whatever it's called that I deleted from my system. It was a whole bunch of MiRC-related trojan horses.

Regards

Posted by Intense_Sounds on Nov-12-2002 00:47:

try this trojan remover program:

http://www.moosoft.com/thecleaner/index.php

Posted by corsten_addict on Nov-12-2002 00:53:

Thanks - but it doesn't work

I've downloaded that before installing all my antivirus programmes and it still doesn't work.

Regards

Posted by Intense_Sounds on Nov-12-2002 01:05:

try doing a scan from the boot disk(s) to ensure that the trojans/viruses aren't resident in memory. This will prevent them from restoring themselves after deletion.

Hope you made some rescue disks.

Posted by rahvin on Nov-12-2002 03:04:

That virus is a bitch. Even if you remove the files it's still there, the only real solution is to backup your data, format and re-install. A customer of mine had the exact same virus and it caused a LOT of network related problems even when the files were removed. Good news is it only infects windows files, so your docs etc should be fine.

Posted by corsten_addict on Nov-12-2002 03:42:

Thanks Rahvin

But I have a question - by formatting, do you mean right-clicking the C:\ drive in "My Computer" and selecting formatting, or installing windows on D:\, booting from D:\, and then deleting C:\ completely, and then re-installing on C:\?

(Confusing, i know)

Posted by Fandom on Nov-12-2002 11:59:

U can try another prog named Trojan Remover-dont know the company though-which is fairly good,and if that doesnt work u can also d/l
Ad-Aware Plus which rulezz
trojans suck
big time

Posted by Fir3start3r on Nov-12-2002 12:04:

Check this site out...
http://www.anti-trojan.net/en/home.aspx

and this...
http://members.aol.com/simplysup/tremover/

and this...
http://www.moosoft.com/thecleaner/

Posted by XxremedyxX on Nov-12-2002 14:08:

mIRC is a Internet Relay Chat program. Its very useful in getting music or music videos or whatever u like to dl. The only thing is u have to know the right network and channel to go in. You probably hate mirc is your situation. Don't know much about viruses except that my virus scanner gets rid of them all... well to my knowledge it does.....

wish i could help ya... sorry

Posted by Stanza on Nov-12-2002 15:52:

I NEVER use MIRC. Till this day I still don't have a full idea on how to use it.

Posted by corsten_addict on Nov-12-2002 17:28:

Firestarter

Thanks for suggesting those programmes, but it's not removing the MiRC programme from the startup.

I guess I'm going to have to format my hard drive or something... and reinstall windows.

I might just rid myself of this computer and get a new one, but I still want to fix it up first.

Regards

Posted by Fir3start3r on Nov-12-2002 23:17:

Re: Firestarter

quote:
Originally posted by corsten_addict
Thanks for suggesting those programmes, but it's not removing the MiRC programme from the startup.

I guess I'm going to have to format my hard drive or something... and reinstall windows.

I might just rid myself of this computer and get a new one, but I still want to fix it up first.

Regards

I didn't really check, but do any of them allow you to create a startup (floppy) disk?
Trying to clean a computer that's already infected from the Hard Drive might not do the trick (especially if it's memory resident).
You'll clean it and it'll be right back after you're done, which is what you could be seeing.
A startup disk would be the answer and if worse comes to worse, a format of the drive.

Posted by rahvin on Nov-13-2002 06:37:

Make a bootable floppy disk from www.bootdisk.com and format your HD from the command line. Boot off the disk and use: format c: /s

*MAKE SURE YOU SAVE ALL YOUR FILES FIRST**

This will nuke everything on your drive, you can then boot off a windows 98SE/2K/ME/XP CD and re-install. That trojan does not actually install mirc, and cleaning it does not mean it's gone. I just got paid 145$ to fix this same problem on one of my customers systems

Posted by Halcyon21 on Nov-13-2002 07:03:

hey rahvin did u get ur name from the wheel of time perchance?

P.S. sorry to jack the thread

Posted by rahvin on Nov-13-2002 23:08:

yes indeed

Posted by Halcyon21 on Nov-14-2002 04:27:

good stuff even if JORDAN TAKES 3 FUCKING YEARS TO WRITE A BOOK