Need Help; Trojan Horse Infection in Windows!

[Terry McCracken]

Did you visit porn or crack sites ?

I came here and bang! I guess CCC could fit into your category

[Terry McCracken]

Did you visit porn or crack sites ?

Hey, I know Terry and he is no Crackhead! A pawn freak maybe, but crackhead ..., no way!

Thanks, I think?

[tmokonen]

The trojan you've encountered looks like it employs a common trojan naming trick, slightly misspelling the name of a legitimate system dll. dxtmsft.dll with one t is a legitimate DirectX dll for performing image transforms.

[Terry McCracken]

The trojan you've encountered looks like it employs a common trojan naming trick, slightly misspelling the name of a legitimate system dll. dxtmsft.dll with one t is a legitimate DirectX dll for performing image transforms.

Yeah I noticed that. I double checked with google. Anyway the scan completed and nothing was found. I hope that what I caught and threw in the vault, (now emptied), is gone.

[Sylwy]

Did you visit porn or crack sites ?

Hey, I know Terry and he is no Crackhead! A pawn freak maybe, but crackhead ..., no way!

Ok ! Ok ! I understand. But nothing about porn sites ????????

[gerold]

trojan horse agent.4.P C:\WINDOWS\system32dxtmsftt.dll

How do I remove it from the windows system?

I'm scanning now.

What antivirus program do you use Terry.

[sbwhiteman]

If you continue to have problems, the procedure at MajorGeeks looks worth a try:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Good luck!

[Tord Romstad]

Off-topic, tounge-in-cheek, pedantic mini-rant:

The term "Trojan Horse" always annoys me a little, because it's so unfair: The Trojans were the victims of the dirty horse trick.

Tord

[Stephen Ham]

Off-topic, tounge-in-cheek, pedantic mini-rant:

The term "Trojan Horse" always annoys me a little, because it's so unfair: The Trojans were the victims of the dirty horse trick.

Tord

Good point, Tord! It should be Greek Horse or better yet, Achaean Horse. Does this semantic oddity exist in other languages too, such as Norsk?

I suppose that many things simply derive their name from the location where they were introduced or found, and not from where or by whom they they were made (e.g. The Shroud of Turin, etc.).

All the best,
Steve

[michiguel]

Off-topic, tounge-in-cheek, pedantic mini-rant:

The term "Trojan Horse" always annoys me a little, because it's so unfair: The Trojans were the victims of the dirty horse trick.

Tord

Good point, Tord! It should be Greek Horse or better yet, Achaean Horse. Does this semantic oddity exist in other languages too, such as Norsk?

I suppose that many things simply derive their name from the location where they were introduced or found, and not from where or by whom they they were made (e.g. The Shroud of Turin, etc.).

All the best,
Steve

In Spanish we say "Presente griego", which is "Greek present" or "Greek gift".

Anyway, "Horse of Troy" should be better. That is a literal translation from Spanish when people refers specifically to that event. We say "Caballo de Troya" (Horse of Troy) and never "Caballo troyano" (Trojan horse).

Miguel