Norton Antivirus 2003 and Trojans

does Norton Antivirus detect Trojans reliably?

what is a good free trojan scanner I cal DL? thanks.

 

thanks.. I will do the scan when I get home tonight. So, Norton won't even detect trojans on a system? Or, will norton detect it, but just not remove it? all this time I have been scanning my clean system with Norton, thinking it would detect trojans! I'm worried about that file I got off Kazaa that refuses to delete even in safemode and a reboot. However I scanned the file with Norton and says it's clean.

 

thanks Nick.. A 2 looks like a nice program.. can't wait to get home tonight to see how many trojans I have.. Hopefully none!

 

well, guess what? I downloaded the A2 program and it said my system is clean. then I ran Norton Antivirus and it picked up a trojan horse by the name SRCLIENT!!!

That bugger got into my startup and I didn't know what it was. I removed SRCLIENT from my startup this morning. Lo and behold it was a trojan. So I quarantined it with Norton and deleted it. Is that all I need to do??

 

Thanks Robo and Nick,

Trojans. Damn, yet another thing to be paranoid about.

Trojan Scan forces you to do an on-line scan before you can download it's free program. I call this terrorist programming.

There is no indication of how long this will take ( to stop you bailing out before using their product, I guess) or any speedo to show the percentage of time elapsed and/or to go. 21 minutes so far and only part way through. How far, who knows?

Took 25 minutes for 29623 files at an average of 20 files per second (from their results box), see below.

Their database was last updated 10/12/2003.

Over 6 months old if I read the USA date correctly. What none since? Surely trojan writers are more active than that.

I guess I will have to go to their site and download an update and run the scan again when I install their program. Talk about double handling.

When they scan your PC if obviously bypasses Zone Alarm, without a peep from Zone Alarm.

I realise that TJS are probably equally as smart/smarter than ZA but it worries me that someone can access my PC without ZA detecting it.

How do they do it and why can't ZA detect the on-line scan request. Baz

My specs: Windows 98 SE Gateway Solo 9300XL Laptop 288mb RAM (maxed out) 30gig Harddrive Pentium P2/400 with only 4.5gig of stuff on it.Dialup modem.

My results.

Starting scan at 07:23:46:780...
Scan folder: 'C:\', recursive
Finished scan at 07:48:47:940
Total number of files is 29623, number of infected files is 0
Average files per second is 20, average file size is 13330079

(Other users times will obviously vary depending on PC configuration, CPU, HD access speed, no of files, broadband or dialup, etc.)

Bazza

PS: Stuff them and their terrorist programming. I will download Nicks recommendation.

Baz

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Actually I forgot to mention the online scanner did not detect the SRCLIENT on my computer either. I tried the online scanner twice, and it seemed to freeze up on me both times before it completed the scan. Any idea what the SRCLIENT.EXE does? The Trojan was filename SRCLIENT.EXE.. a google search turned up this:
http://www.funduc.com/srshareware.htm

"SRCLIENT.EXE: This is a network client configuration tool for v 3.4+. Run this from a network workstation and use it to adjust the references to the location of sr32.exe, the user's work path (for temp files, ctrl+script button dump, html output, etc), & the program shortcuts on the current machine"

you can go and download SRCLIENT.EXE right off the website, but I don't understand the description. When I got infected the SRCLIENT got into my startup, and it also tried to access the internet but Zonealarm caught it and I blocked it.. what the heck did this thing try to do? Norton said it was a Trojan Horse.