Trojan Virus

[EHM-1883 Matt]

For the last few days, I've had problems with this Trojan Virus called SmithFraud. I got it in an e-mail from one of my friends at school who's comp was infected with the virus.

While it was in my computer, it somehow made 20 other tracking cookies and 40 Trojan virus's (I was really really shocked)

Luckily, I have managed (well, the tech support guy managed) to delete all of the cookies and Trojans, however, I do not know completely what it did to my comp while it was in it.

The main things I noticed was it kept signing me out of MSN, constant pop-ups appearing, and some messages telling me to delete some files in the windows folder (which I knew was a scam)

Anyway, the point is since this Trojan sent me an e-mail saying I got a good eCard from my friend, I think it might have managed to send some cards to some of my contacts, so I'm trying to warn anybody that if they get ANY kind of eCard of anything from me, DON'T OPEN IT!

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Thanks for the heads up Matt. I know how it feels, I have recently been infested with spyware and ended up wiping everything and starting again.... It still managed to get back in there but in the end I managed to get rid of it! Anyway, glad you got it cleared up!

[EHM-2143 Tommi]

Old buddy smith can be real pain in the you know where.
Weekly basis at work i get  to fight for these and they can devastating if not properly dealed, so make sure who ever cleans your computer makes good job.
Also i prefer to backup important stuff  and format the hard drive and start all over, then you dont have risks left for leftover from any infections.