Windows 7 Troubleshooting Persistent Trojan Virus After USB Infection on New Computer

silver04v · Nov 9, 2011

So my fiance plugged in a USB drive with music from limewire..security essentials popped up with a Trojan downloader...I hit fix, then said it was OK. I turned it on this morning and it popped up again. So I'm running a full scan, but what do you think? What should I do to get rid of this. It seems even though I selected remove when security essentials came up that it is still infected. The scan has found stuff 6 minutes in it says and ill be able to look when its done. I'm so mad this just happened to my brand new computer.

MikeHawthorne · Nov 9, 2011

Yes if Malwarebytes came up clean you are probably good to go.
I haven't seen many thing that it misses.

patcooke · Nov 9, 2011

Try the free version of mbam from here:

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I've always maintained a full image of my system drive using Acronis True Image - some malware can be very difficult to eliminate and running a full recovery from a system image can be a very effective way of getting back to a clean state. You can a free trial of Acronis from here:

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silver04v · Nov 9, 2011

I ran mse and it found it. I then allowed it to remove it. I restarted then it didn't come back when the computer rebooted. I have also done malwarbytes which came back clean. I'm running a second mse full scan now . If I comes back clean I should be good?

MikeHawthorne · Nov 9, 2011

Yes if Malwarebytes came up clean you are probably good to go.
I haven't seen many thing that it misses.

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