So yeah, i went on to a website and it looked a little dodgy (wouldnt let me close- had to use Ctrl+alt+delete) so i immediatly did a virus scan. Now foolishly I logged onto msn 3 times (im an idiot i know, dont remind me!) during this virus scan, because i checked how it was going before i logged in each time and it hadnt yet found any virus's. When the scan was complete I trojan was detected, but its status was quarantined automaticly, well i freaked out, got onto the other computer and changed all my passwords (which i know for a fact has no virus's/trojans). I want to know if there is anything else I can do to protect my acounts, and well wanted to get this out in the open to just genrally get advice.

You'd probably have to give a bit more information, but I'm thinking you'll be fine. What kind of site was this? Did your AV give the trojan name? What AV were you using?

Twas using McAffee, it did give the name, but as soon as my dad found out he ordered the computer be sent to him. So I dont know, sorry. I was looking on a website that was supposed to give help on some vista problems I had.

McAfee is decent for picking up stuff, but if I were you I would download Avira Antivir and scan one more time. It's free, and offers some very good protection. Chances are the trojan didn't pick up your account names/passwords. All you can really do is change passwords if you're worried about account security.

If you were using McAfee, you might still have viruses, you should get a good antivirus like Kaspersky, NOD32 or Avira antivir.

Nobody's gonna care about your msn password and if you did manage to change the passwords then you're fine. Nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

But....just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to run Spybot - Search & Destroy, just to be safe.

Nobody's gonna care about your msn password and if you did manage to change the passwords then you're fine. Nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

But....just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to run Spybot - Search & Destroy, just to be safe.

 

 

 

Spammers care as it adds one more name to their arsenal and in turn increasing the probability that another computer could become infected with a trojan or virus.

 

 

 

I would suggest getting one of each type of anti-malware product(i.e. anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall):

 

 

 

Anti-virus:

 

 

 

Avast! - http://www.avast.com/

 

Kaspersky - http://www.kaspersky.com/

 

NOD32 - http://www.eset.com/

 

Antivir - http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php

 

 

 

Anti - spyware:

 

 

 

Spybot: Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html (spybot has always used mirrors and does not actually host the product on their site)

 

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.com/

 

 

 

Firewalls:

 

 

 

Comodo Firewall Pro - http://www.comodo.com/

 

ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us ... ?lid=en-us

 

 

 

Conglomerate of products:

 

http://download.cnet.com/windows/

Nobody's gonna care about your msn password and if you did manage to change the passwords then you're fine. Nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

But....just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to run Spybot - Search & Destroy, just to be safe.

 

 

 

Spammers care as it adds one more name to their arsenal and in turn increasing the probability that another computer could become infected with a trojan or virus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd have to disagree, doing that is probably the biggest waste of time ever.

Nobody's gonna care about your msn password and if you did manage to change the passwords then you're fine. Nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

But....just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to run Spybot - Search & Destroy, just to be safe.

 

 

 

Spammers care as it adds one more name to their arsenal and in turn increasing the probability that another computer could become infected with a trojan or virus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd have to disagree, doing that is probably the biggest waste of time ever.

 

Lots of people do it though. Well, maybe not lots, but some.

Can you post a HijackThis Test ?

 

 

 

Or is it resolved already ?

Sorry l I think this has been resolved now.

 

Feel free to lock thread.

Nobody's gonna care about your msn password and if you did manage to change the passwords then you're fine. Nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

But....just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to run Spybot - Search & Destroy, just to be safe.

 

 

 

Spammers care as it adds one more name to their arsenal and in turn increasing the probability that another computer could become infected with a trojan or virus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd have to disagree, doing that is probably the biggest waste of time ever.

 

 

 

Yeah that's why this sort of thing happens all the time, right? :roll:

Nobody's gonna care about your msn password and if you did manage to change the passwords then you're fine. Nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

But....just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to run Spybot - Search & Destroy, just to be safe.

 

 

 

Spammers care as it adds one more name to their arsenal and in turn increasing the probability that another computer could become infected with a trojan or virus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd have to disagree, doing that is probably the biggest waste of time ever.

 

 

 

Yeah that's why this sort of thing happens all the time, right? :roll:

 

 

 

There's a difference between a bot doing it and a person doing it.