Help with Hiloti trojan

[slimjim]

So my AVG anti-virus has detected the Hiloti trojan on my laptop. I have run several scans with AVG & Malawarebytes and Ashampoo Optimiser that is pretty good with registry cleaning but it is still showing up on AVG, but not on every scan - it will be there, then all is clean, then a later scan finds it again.

It's a bit odd because as far as I can tell I have visited no sites that I don't usually visit - maybe AVG has it wrong and it's a "false-positive" .

Just the same as the Small FHT Trojan that AVG detected earlier this year it's saying its in svchost.exe

So far I haven't noticed any changes in performance of the laptop, no huge CPU useage, no odd pop-ups or anything, so it could be AVG being a bit oversensitive..... any thoughts or comments?

If it is for real is there any free software to get rid of it, or might it mean a factory reset?

 

[slimjim]

I suggest to submit the affected file to virustotal, it will be scanned by more than 40 antivirus so you'll easily know if it's a false positive or not.

Mmmm... I don't seem to be able to send anything to them in a format they can access ~X(

 

[slimjim]

Thanks for the help,I will run Hijack this afternoon.

I have now run full scans with Bullguard and Avast - neither of them found anything but what was interesting was that when I tried to download Avast AVG blocked it saying there were 2 trojans attached, which seems unlikely as I was getting it from the Avast site direct - this does seem to indicate that AVG has got some issues.

I used Avast for years until last year when following a re-set Avast 2014 refused to download so I had to switch to another and I chose AVG... happily I found this morning that there is a new Avast version which has downloaded and installed and is running fine so I don't think I'll be going back to AVG.

 

[slimjim]

Avast is better for sure

I bet avast can't find that hiloti, let me guess...

You got it right, neither Avast nor Bullguard reported any problems following full scans

 

[warp9]

I use Spybot for things like that. Spybot find things that Avast doesn't find.