Trojan Help

nuke New user 2 posts Posted: 02/11/2009 4:11 PM	Hi, This is my first post so welcome u all. I have a mobile HDD and when I plug it in to the pc the antivirus gives me an alert saying it has recognised a pattern of a trojan in the file "autorun.inf". Although I formatted the drive a few times this still comes up. My anti virus is Avira premium. Any help would be appriciated. thanks cheers
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apt.pupil in the middle of a fanboi war Frequent poster 30 posts Posted: 02/11/2009 5:11 PM	sounds to me like Avira is calling a false positive. What it has done by the looks of it has grabbed the information file that windows creates on the HDD so that it can automatically read the HDD(once formatted) and matched the patterns to that of a typical Trojan payload. apart from either disabling(not advised) Avira or switching antivirus software, i don't see a whole lot of options for you
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nuke New user 2 posts Posted: 02/11/2009 7:11 PM	thanks for the reply apt.pupil. A friend of mine told me the same thing once. Well guess i will just ignore the message then. thanks a lot
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Michael J The angels have the phone box Cornerstone member 56 posts Posted: 02/11/2009 7:11 PM	you could probably add it to the exception lest. any decent anti-virus should be able to do that.
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