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Guest Tony Williams
Posted

I've foolishly infected my machine with the ecard trojan. I opened an email

telling me I had an ecard, thinking it was from one of my sons who often

sends me ecards on birthdays etc.AVG has picked up a trojan in the C:\system

volume information folder but I can't open that folder to get at it. I get a

message that says the folder is not accessible access is denied. I have

googled ecard trojan and got lots of links all discussing the trojan but

nothing telling me how to get rid of it. Can anyone help??

Thanks

Tony

Guest Milo (MSPSS)
Posted

Proceed with this

 

Right click My Computer> Properties>

On the system properties console> System Restore tab

check the turn off system restore ( to turn off ) and click ok

 

restart your computer again and go back to the system restore tab

and uncheck it and click ok

 

thanks

 

--

Milo

MSPSS

 

 

"Tony Williams" wrote:

> I've foolishly infected my machine with the ecard trojan. I opened an email

> telling me I had an ecard, thinking it was from one of my sons who often

> sends me ecards on birthdays etc.AVG has picked up a trojan in the C:\system

> volume information folder but I can't open that folder to get at it. I get a

> message that says the folder is not accessible access is denied. I have

> googled ecard trojan and got lots of links all discussing the trojan but

> nothing telling me how to get rid of it. Can anyone help??

> Thanks

> Tony

>

>

>

Guest David H. Lipman
Posted

From: "Tony Williams" <tw@invalid.com>

 

| I've foolishly infected my machine with the ecard trojan. I opened an email

| telling me I had an ecard, thinking it was from one of my sons who often

| sends me ecards on birthdays etc.AVG has picked up a trojan in the C:\system

| volume information folder but I can't open that folder to get at it. I get a

| message that says the folder is not accessible access is denied. I have

| googled ecard trojan and got lots of links all discussing the trojan but

| nothing telling me how to get rid of it. Can anyone help??

| Thanks

| Tony

|

 

You would have had to gone to the web site offering the so-called eCard and then downloaded

and executed it. The Trojan YOU have is mostly like NOT the Nuwar Trojan that is

associated with the eCard spammed emails.

 

Anything found in c:\system voluume information\_restore is infact the Ssystem Restore

cache.

 

You have two options. The first is to clear the System Restore cache. The second is ignore

it. As long as you don't restore the PC to a previous Restore point the Trojan will

eventually cache-out.

 

--

Dave

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

Guest Tony Williams
Posted

Thanks for those suggestions guys.

Tony

"Tony Williams" <tw@invalid.com> wrote in message

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> I've foolishly infected my machine with the ecard trojan. I opened an

> email telling me I had an ecard, thinking it was from one of my sons who

> often sends me ecards on birthdays etc.AVG has picked up a trojan in the

> C:\system volume information folder but I can't open that folder to get at

> it. I get a message that says the folder is not accessible access is

> denied. I have googled ecard trojan and got lots of links all discussing

> the trojan but nothing telling me how to get rid of it. Can anyone help??

> Thanks

> Tony

>

>

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