Winstall.exe - helpp!!

[alisaselez]

Hi Hallo
My computer was infected with a trojan virus today, from a link from someone on msn messenger. I ran AVG Free and the virus went to the vault, which i have deleted and all seems to be running fine now. however, i've had to vault it three times. when I restart, the virus seems to reappear. but my computer is running fine.

but...

there is an icon on my desktop titled winstall.exe which when scanned doesn't contain a virus, but I have just had a quick scan thru some stuff on the internet and get the idea that its a nasty little program that lets other nasty stuff infect my computer I can't delete it, and in fact, am not sure if this is accurate and am a little worried its an important windows file i shouldnt be deleting at all.

I've now installed Avira Antivir as well, as a double up safety precaution, but no spyware detection programs as yet (I'm not even sure if I'm wording that correctly..)

help??
Thanks a lot

[Scinto]

Re: Winstall.exe - helpp!!

download spybot, from here,

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Spybot_Search_and_Destroy/1043809773/1

be sure to update it aswell, it should only take a few minutes to do a complete scan

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: Winstall.exe - helpp!!

Read this,

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic22402.html

[Apoc196]

Re: Winstall.exe - helpp!!

Hi, if you're still having trouble getting rid of the trogen you might wanna try turning off system restore and doing a scan with avg in safe mode. This should get rid of it and stop it coming back. As for the winstall.exe, I agree with Scinto-try spybot-or you could try ewido antispyware.
Hope this helps

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: Winstall.exe - helpp!!

and i recommend while ur doing this, just unplug ur network cable so ur not connected to the internet cuz viruses have their ways of downloading new ones

[.damage.nl]

Re: Winstall.exe - helpp!!

I had the same virus, the 'main virus' that you need to remove is clickspring.downloader, 5 free scanners +etrust couldnt remove it, then I installed protection software from my internet provider, that did the trick for me.

[Venomous]

Re: Winstall.exe - helpp!!

Did you get it Alisa or did it make computer go boom boom