I think I may have a trojan problem.

This afternoon I was browsing around forums, trying to procrastinate from my studies as usual when...

All of a sudden aim pops up and wants to send a message to someone I've never heard of before (it was something odd and had leetspeak numbers in it).

I didn't understand how this happened, and I noticed in my mozilla bars I had a tab that had something like goaim:blahblahblah (blahblahblah had what appeared to be code that made aim begin sending "Hello are you there" to the person mentioned before).

I thought this was really weird, and creepy, but it didn't really bother me too much. Then about 30 minutes later, my network just stopped working. I had to disconect my router and connect directly to my PC to get back on the net. I was very worried at the time, but I have a huge test tommorrow, so I decided I would have to try and wait to investigate it thoroughly.

About an hour later, my internet broke down again. I tried running Norton AV//Spybot//Ad-Aware and got no results. I also tried resetting my modem, etc, etc even tried directly connecting the modem to another PC (previously on the now-dead network) with no success there as well.

Can anyone help me? The main problem is no internet means I can't download programs to try and fix the trojan...and now I'm stuck on AOL dialup(!)(!)(!)
If anyone has any ideas they would be greatly appreciated!

 

Welcome to MG!
I strongly suggest you read through the 'READ THIS...' stickies posted in the Spyware Specific forum, starting with this one:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

I understand having a dial-up connection can make things hard especially for downloading programs but after reading the stickies, you could do some of the stuff without a program but depending on what you got on your system, you may and will have to download some utilities.

I guess I could suggest you open the registry and check the entries for suspicious lines in these 2 locations:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN

and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN

I am giving this last bit of info assuming that you have some knowledge using the registry editor and Windows. If you do not even know how to start registry editor (which I didnt include on purpose) then disregard my suggestion, read the stickies all the way through and re-post with a update so one of the spyware experts can help you out.

 

I should have mentioned that the laptop with dial-up is not the PC that is having the problems, so downloading even with dial-up is not an option =o( Sorry for the miscomunication.

 

I see, well either way, you should still read through the stickies, if prefered save them as a text file and carry them over on a floppy or even better print out the instructions so you could read and follow the instructions much easier.
For the utilities, may be it is not possible since I do not know your environment or situation but find a PC that as the high-speed connection and also a CD Burner, download and burn the utilities and possibly a free anti-virus suite like Avast or AVG while you are at it, fill this CD with all the goodies mentioned on the stickies. MG download section has the latest versions of all the utilities you would need. Armed with that CD and printouts set sail to the troubled PC for some action.

 

Ok, now this is really getting weird. I just returned home from school to find firefox open at my homepage. I never opened firefox and told it to connect...it's like my PC is taunting me or something... I think I'll go run the fixes in that thread while I still have internet connection, thanks again! I'll post updates if anything else happens.