Trojan Horse Generic 17.QU
March 22nd, 2010 in Trojan Horse
Trojan Horse Generic 17.QU is a trojan horses.Trojan horses are malicious programs that can cause damage to your computer and information on your computer. They can also slow down the Internet and corrupt your computer.
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Infection Type : Trojan Horse
Risk Level : Dangerous
System Affected : Windows Operating System
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May 15th, 2010 at 9:33 am
I found a founder in C:\Windows that started “PRAGMA” and ended with a random series of lower case letters. This location was identified as the source of two different Generic_17 variants as well as one identified as GENERIC.PO
This process on Windows VISTA removed the infection
1) Start in Safe mode and turn off System Restore
2) open a command prompt and CD \Windows
3) type CD PRAGMA This will automatically fill out the folder name (which is invisible by any other means)
4)Copy the folder name into a text file (for use later)
5) A DIR will show several .dll files; delete them all.
6) Reboot again into safe mode
7) With Regedit, search for all occurrences of the folder name. I usually export the main key and delete it from the registry, but I am confident in my registry editting capabilities. NOTE: Some keys will not be successfully deleted, particularly in the drivers section of the registry. As long as the other references are deleted, the infection seems to go away.
Reboot the system.
In my case, prior to this procedure AVG reported a trojan whenever I started Internet Explorer. It starts without warning now.
May 15th, 2010 at 9:34 am
My earlier post has two errors.
I found a FOLDER…
And after typing CD PRAGMA, press to TAB key to autocomplete the folder name