re: US Airways virus infected email Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 4:44 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve B (1595 messages posted) I can see why your friend uses other people's computers to check his e-mails. :) On Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 3:55 am, Dickyboy wrote: >Hi, > >A friend borrowed my pc a few days ago to check emails and opened an email which >purported to be from US airways. Immediately AVG flagged up the threat, but too late >as from then on my system was awash with Trojans with names such as Dropper.BravixA >and Agent.AADP. >I used AVG in safe mode to scan and clean the system, which it appears to have done >succesfully, however now when I boot up whether in normal or safe mode I just get >a blank screen instead of my desktop. I can open task manager but that's all I can >do. >I'm assuming that if I can do a system restore that predates the infection whatever >has been corrupted may be reinstated, but I don't know if I can run a system restore >from task manager. Written in response to: US Airways virus infected email (Dickyboy: Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 3:55 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] US Airways virus infected email (Dickyboy: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 3:55 am) re: US Airways virus infected email (Steve B: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 4:44 am) re: US Airways virus infected email (Steve: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 10:11 am) re: US Airways virus infected email (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 1:16 pm) re: US Airways virus infected email (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 1:37 pm) re: US Airways virus infected email (Steve: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 2:09 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum