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Hiya everybody, I was going to post this in the Software forum but thought our community would benefit better if it was here.
Scott "Hypernion" emailed me to let me know he was receiving some things from me that his system detected as a Trojan. The thing is, I never have emailed him.
He gave me a link that you should check out. The software is "Free" for 30 days so you should at least give it a try.

Here is the link to the site:
http://www.moosoft.com/

I think you should check your system, I have McCaffee and the latest updates and Moosoft detected 14 Trojans then cleaned and deleted them!

Thought you might all want to know this.

Dave

And for those of you using Norton, McAffee, or whatever...I am too.  I run Norton AV 2004 as well as Adaware and Spybot S&D, plus I'm firewalled.  

My ISP killed my connection a few weeks ago because their abuse department picked up spam coming from me.  It was the ISP who pointed me towards "The Cleaner" from Moosoft.

Ran it, picked up a bunch of stuff, and haven't had a problem since.

So you can never be too careful.  (And Dave isn't the only FS community e-mail I've gotten, in fact there have been dozens.  But since I "know" Dave I figured I'd help him out.  So your system might be one of the infected ones.)

Good luck!

Just because your email appears in the 'from' section of a virus or trojan email doesn't mean at all your system is infected.

Most of the current viruses that are going round use spoofed email addresses that have nothing to do with the name they use. There are a variety of ways the criminals use to harvest email addresses including running programs to make up litterally 10's of millions of variations on email addresses. The easy to see proof of this is the numbers of non existant emails we also get - who's origins do not exist & never have done.

Not to say we shouldn't be on guard at all times though!

Oh absolutely, Pete.  In fact I mentioned this to Dave when I first told him about the emails.  But like you said, it's never bad to be overly cautious.

I have tried many spyware/adware programs and it seems each one I try will find something different.
The most recent is Spy Sweeper and it found the Alexa spyware, I thought I had it in my computer but NoAdware and Spybot Serch and destroy didn't pick it up. It also found a few I didn't know where there.
But I was becoming concerned when I noticed ram being suck out of my computer and things started to act funny. So I looked around couldn't find nothing, tried Spy Sweeper and it located it, gone now and computer running at normal!
By the way I found the file and download that the trojan came from! Guru3d!! It was in a driver download, actually in two downloads of two different drivers I recently tried!
So now does anyone know of a program that can scan a downloaded zip file for spyware? Much like I can with my antivirus.
I'll try out that link you posted Fly, and run it and see if it finds something that the other programs missed.

Fret I use Norton Antivirus 2004 to scan my zip files.

Fret I use Norton Antivirus 2004 to scan my zip files.

Does that look for spyware and adware also???
I scan my zips with Avast before opening, but was wondering if any spy/ad ware programs have the ability to scan files, like you can with anti-virus.

Norton has picked up spyware from time to time.  It's just a matter of keeping it all up to date.

I would never rely on one program for internet security.  Use your program of choice in conjunction with some others and you'll be all set.

I got one last week...called syscfg32
I found it in the taskmanager, but didn't recognize it at all.
Then made a search on google, quickly turned out this was a Trojan.

More info:
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/s/sd ... trojan.asp

Don't know where I got it from, but it's deleted now anyway. Kinda scary though  :(