I spent 3 hours on the phone with the helpful BT folk this evening after getting a particularly vicious Trojan. The final solution they gave me was to download malwarebytes and let it run for a couple of hours.

well I was very impressed- it found lots of stuff my normal anti-malware didn't find and got things up and running very nicely.

I was panicking as the trojan that had infected me would let me log into some forums but not others,among them this site.... I almost thought I should inform BR in case there was a conspiracy afoot.....

Ah... this site is very well set up to repel nasty boarders - that's one reason why we have the CAPTCHA system for posts; viruses can't penetrate it.

I've had so many disasters from trojans and viruses..I've just got a new Apple macbook laptop and it's a joy. Back-up support is amazing..they help and recommend everything. Even a good place to have a drink.

Can't understand why I resisted so long and they're cheaper than the competition.

Can we have a link for Malware bytes please, it sounds pretty usefull.

Hi robbie

www.filehippo.com/

then enter malwarebytes in the search box and it will bring up the free download.

it is possible to download it from other sites, but filehippo was the one the BT engineer directed me to.

I have to say I was most impressed. Neither AVG nor McAfee could get rid of my Trojan, but this did, and also found other stuff too.

And I have to add; as an Apple Mac fan, viruses are almost unknown here.

I would always download it from the makers site:

malwarebytes.org/

I run a small IT company (Http://www.the-it-people.co.uk)and this is one of the most useful tools in our arsenal!

Some malicious programs actually look for the executable file it runs from and blocks it, so if you download it and can't get it to install change the executable file name from mbam.exe to test.exe or whatever you fancy!

Shoo, I'd like to keep that on the down-low, please.
Some evil is bound to notice... & me a virus-virgin.