Kaspersky: Trojan.Win32.AutoRun.atq. Has it been detected on MSE yet?

Hey again guys..

This time its a virus problem I'm having. A friend of mine (A) who uses KAV2011 detected this (Trojan.Win32.AutoRun.atq) on his thumbdrive. His thumbdrive was passed to me, which i passed to another friend of mine (B), who passed it back to him.

A uses KAV2011 and no anti-malware and is on 32 bit (OS unknown)
B uses Mcafee (just uninstalled) and MSE and Malwarebytes, on Win 7 x64

I use MSE as my main protection with Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D as scanners while using Win 7 32 bit

I haven't scanned my computer since using the thumbdrive and I plan to do so when i get home tomorrow.

But right now I've spoken to B who've just done a partial scan with Mcafee, full scan with MSE and MBAM, with no results. Definitions were updated.

This is why I was wondering, has the trojan been detected by MSE or MBAM yet?

According to Kaspersky's site, they've detected it since Nov 09 (Trojan.Win32.AutoRun.atq - Securelist)

And as a site note, what does the trojan do to the computer anyway?

Anyway, thanks for all your time.

The thing is, the thumb's his and his AV managed to remove it successfully? I don't think I need it... All i'm worried about is the uncertainty if I, or B has it since MSE and MBAM had no results on B's computer.

Encyclopedia entry: Trojan:Win32/Autorun - Learn more about malware - Microsoft Malware Protection Center

erica647 said:

Encyclopedia entry: Trojan:Win32/Autorun - Learn more about malware - Microsoft Malware Protection Center

I saw that one already, but the one i posted above seems to be quite new. But guessing from that page, the new atp variant isn't detected yet?

yeah. its not listed.

I still haven't gotten an answer to my main question though..

Has it been detected on MSE?

Hi there
Since ANY AV software can NEVER be guaranteed to be 100% effective how can you assume that a VIRUS REMOVER is also 100% effective.

Especially for something like a password stealer -- I would have NO hesitation here about either doing a COMPLETE RESTORE of a KNOWN clean system backup or a COMPLETE DISK FORMAT via security erase ( write Binary zeros on every sector --not just the standard format) and then RE-INSTALL WINDOWS.

I certainly would NEVER EVER trust a previously infected computer that hat merely been cleansed by some AV software.

It's moot as to whether its been detected on MSE or not -- if you don't get Viruses in the first place its difficult to find out --

What IS more important is that your computer has been infected and what you should do about it.

Cheers
jimbo