| Subject: | Pandex trojan - Norton and AVG fail to remove it |
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| From: | "Mortimer" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:46:27 +0100 |
| Newsgroups: | uk.comp.misc |
Has anyone had problems removing the Pandex trojan from a PC which is infected? This trojan sends spam via a variety of SMTP servers. A customer has Norton 360 which successfully identifies that it has found Pandex, even during its boot-up checks, and during a virus scan it claims to have removed it and needs a reboot to finalise the process. But after the boot the thing is still there: you can see Norton trapping some of the emails and displaying suitable error messages. I've scanned in Safe Mode with no networking. I've temporarily installed AVG Free and scanned with that in Safe Mode: it claimed to find and disinfect a trojan in winlogon.exe. But still the virus is present. I've also scanned with Spybot 1.6 and removed the threats that it found. I can't see any rogue programs being started in Start | Programs | Startup or HKCU/HKLM | Software | Microsoft | Windows | Current Version | Run. Any suggestions? The various "How do I remove Pandex" articles found from a Google search seem to imply that Norton, AVG, Panda and Kaspersky will find and remove Pandex successfully. It's getting to the stage where a rebuild might be quicker than investigating further... |
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