"the staring frogs of Southern Iberia" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ew8lktYqIHA.4716@xxxxxx
Quote:
> My son just called from college stating he had picked up a virus called
> JS/downloader.agent. AVG keeps popping up telling him a threat has been
> detected but won't heal the infection, just move it to the vault. I had
> him run a Trend Online scan but he said it just told him he had some
> cookies. Is Smitfraud a viable fix or does he need better removal tools?
> Smitfraud sounds a little complex possibly for him since I guess from
> looking quickly at it, it needs to be run in safe mode. Laptop is an HP
> with Vista for the OS. He was home for the weekend and I suspect he might
> have picked up the virus here as opposed to school because of their
> firewall protections.
This should sort it out. You might need to make sure that IE7 is not run in
Protected Mode.
http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/
ss.