re: trojan and joke programs Monday, January 5, 2004 at 8:35 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve (21647 messages posted) If you have system restore enabled turn it off. Then Reboot the computer. Then try the online scan and removal again. I have not gone thru this, this is just what I would try. On Monday, January 5, 2004 at 8:00 am, Jeff wrote: >Hello and thank you for your time, >I found this site and love it. I have run Housecall AV and it says I have a trojan >called checkin.b (I think) and another possible joke program called joke russ.a. > Housecall says they cannot be accessed and they will not clean or delete. When >I run my Norton and AVG anti-virus programs they say my system is clean. If I have >these running around in my 'puter I would really like to get rid of them. I tried >starting in safe mode and searching for the files to delete them but it says they >are in use. They are _restore\temp\xxxxxxx.cpy files and _restore\temp\fsxxxx.cab >files. Any ideas? Thanks again. Written in response to: trojan and joke programs (Jeff: Monday, January 5, 2004 at 8:00 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] trojan and joke programs (Jeff: Mon, Jan 5, 2004, 8:00 am) re: trojan and joke programs (Steve: Mon, Jan 5, 2004, 8:35 am) re: trojan and joke programs (Jack Gulley: Mon, Jan 5, 2004, 11:04 am) re: trojan and joke programs (worm: Mon, Jan 5, 2004, 12:35 pm) re: trojan and joke programs (CWS: Sun, Feb 8, 2004, 11:43 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum