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Trojan Horse Generic11.bihn

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Over lunch break, a friend called me and asked me what is “trojan horse generic11.bihn” He says he is running AVG 2011. Anyone know about this?

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Your friend has a virus

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Trojan Horse Generic11 is a trojan virus that can download and install a rogue security applications on computer. This program may issue fake warning alerts and advise users to acquire the registered version of the software.

http://www.computing.net/answers/security/trojan-horse-generic11/23504.html

More info. needed

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I relayed the information to the friend. Prior to this, I had not heard of this trojan. Where can I get more information about this trojan?

Scan by friend

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The friend scanned the infected file via http://www.virustotal.com. It turned up a result of 17.1%

Hit the unit with Malware Bytes to remove this thing

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AVG Free is quite good but it doesn’t cover everything and this is one of the things not covered. :0

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10878968

With things like this I like to load and update Malware Bytes and then reboot the system into Safe Mode to scan and remove the infections.

Col

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