Good Morning, Malwarebytes found a Trodjan.Dropp....this morning. It appears to have come from C:/program files\familysearch indexing\indexing. I am not experienced with Trojans and I have never had one that I know of. I put the culprit into Quarantine. So, do I delete the quarantined item? Thanks guys - appreciate it. Yvonne

Yvonne, You should know that Malwarebytes is famous for false positives. Before you delete it be sure you now what file it is. Now I'm not saying it's not a virus. I'm just saying be sure before you delete it. Assuming it is a trojan.Dropper. A Trojan.Dropper is a type of Trojan whose purpose is to deliver other malware into your computer. A dropper is a means to an end rather than the end itself. In other words, the dropper is usually used at the start or in the early stages of a malware attack. If the dropper has already been activated, there is a good chance you will have other malware on your system. If it has been caught before it could activate, you are ok. I would suggest installing AVG Free from grisoft. It is a quality antivirus that will give you very few false positives, and its detection rate is probably better than malwarebytes. If you do have other malware, there is more chance that AVG will find it. Regards Les Hardy On 01/12/11 16:12, Yvonne Strong wrote: > Good Morning, > > Malwarebytes found a Trodjan.Dropp....this morning. It appears to have > come from C:/program files\familysearch indexing\indexing. I am not > experienced with Trojans and I have never had one that I know of. I put > the culprit into Quarantine. > > So, do I delete the quarantined item? > > Thanks guys - appreciate it. > > Yvonne > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >