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autorun.if and the CDTray Trojan
So here I am on campus doing some work in the computer lab, when the computer's anti-virus program notifies me that it has deleted a trojan called "autorun.inf" on my USB drive. I did some research and I found out that autorun.inf is utilized by the CDTray Trojan, which causes the CD-Rom tray to open and close periodically on an infected computer. A few weeks ago, my home desktop was doing that, so I did an anti-virus and spyware/malware scan which revealed nothing. Despite nothing being revealed, the activity of the cd-rom tray opening and closing by itself stopped. Now, I don't know if anti-virus programs can remove viruses during scans without notifying the user, maybe that's what happened. My worry is that the CdTray trojan is still on my home desktop, though it's now dormant. How can I make sure the the CDTray trojan is no longer on my computer?
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Perhaps the computer was thinking ahead and was offering a place to set your coffee??
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1987 560SL 85,000 miles Meet on the level, leave on the square. Great words to live by Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. - Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.
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What AV "found" it at school and which AV do you run at home? Most AV companies provide removal instructions.
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Google the virus name. You can usually find out what programs to run to find it and get rid of it. I've done this a couple of times, and it always seems like a different cocktail to get them off.
One possibility re: the thing not doing it anymore, is that your AV update had something to get rid of it. I wouldn't rely on that though.
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go to www.trendmicro.com and run their program called Free Housecall. It will clean up your hard drive for free.
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I don't know the same of the AV at the school. Here at home, I use McAfee.
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Ok, I've found a whole bunch of help by Googling. I've disabled the autorun feature on my home computer since autorun triggers trojans that use it. I've also created autorun.inf files on my USB drives. If there is no autorun.info file on a USB drive, a trojan can create one and get to work. If there is one there already, it can't create one, so it can't work. I'm about to download some legitimate malware, trojan, and worm removers to see if they can find anything. I think I'm clean now, but you never know.
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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later! -German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123. |
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I too had this on my flash drive. I formatted the drive, and did a full scan on my machine using AVG and Symantec. Both came back with nothing, so I am not worried.
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