View Full Version : Can trojans hide in msoffice files?
Oni-kun
Oct 22nd, 2005, 09:00 PM
Long story short i got a trojan that i cleaned out. do they infect *.doc and excel files too? norton shows nothing
rdtx2002
Oct 22nd, 2005, 10:22 PM
Long story short i got a trojan that i cleaned out. do they infect *.doc and excel files too? norton shows nothing
only if they are embedded into macros
ephemera
Oct 22nd, 2005, 10:26 PM
The worst virus I had was disguised as a .doc file. I couldn't get rid of it, only a complete reinstall.
cipher
Oct 22nd, 2005, 10:36 PM
Trojans can prevent the AIDS virus...so it's not always bad to have a Trojan.
Oni-kun
Oct 22nd, 2005, 10:55 PM
Well I basically Nuked the partition that had the OS on it and norton ghosted an image from like a week ago. and then i deleted all *.exe files. Now i'm only worried about exe's inside rars and zips and infection of my document files.
philelmo
Oct 22nd, 2005, 10:57 PM
if they can hide in exe files.. then they can hide in anything you can imagine
Oni-kun
Oct 22nd, 2005, 11:24 PM
whats did you learn today?
dont download a virus
Oh yeah thanks great advice! I should have noticed when the file was called VIRUS.EXE oh silly me I should have known!
philelmo
Oct 22nd, 2005, 11:30 PM
Oh yeah thanks great advice! I should have noticed when the file was called VIRUS.EXE oh silly me I should have known!
watchout from trojan.bat, spyware.com, adware.zip
nfnx
Oct 23rd, 2005, 05:21 AM
Trojans can prevent the AIDS virus...so it's not always bad to have a Trojan.
true, but lifestyle economic pack is much mcuh cheaper