How to remove WinNT/Alureon.D Trojan
My computer seems to infected by the WinNT/Alureon.D Trojan, which is detected by my McAfee anti virus. But the anti virus is not able to delete it stating that close other applications using this program. Even though I do not have any applications running the anti virus still gives the same message as close other applications using this program. How do I remove this trojan. Even it gets transfered to the removable media connected to my computer. I am using Windows Vista operating system.
Harmful WinNT/Alureon.D Trojan
WinNT/Alureon.D trojan is a member of the malicious Win32/Alureon family. The tojan WinNT/Alureon.D is intended to derive the infected user's information for the attacker. It also observes the network traffic of the infected host to steal sensitive data by intercepting the network traffic. This can be the user name, account information or even the credit card number and password.
Trojan WinNT/Alureon.D Information
Trojan:WinNT/Alureon.D may be installed by other malware. When run, Trojan:WinNT/Alureon.D hooks the System Service Descriptor Table(SSDT) and system Application Programming Iinterfaces(API). This trojan may be present by such filenames as the following:
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%systemroot%\system32\drivers\UACD.sys
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\UAC<random letters>.sys
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\TDSS.sys
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\TDSSserv.sys
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\TDSS<random 4 letters>.sys