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Potential trojan ... suggestions invited
Have a friend on ahome computer who only recieves email from very limited number of sources. Following an email from me this person reports having to remove a trojan by restoring to "out of the box" settings.
As this restoration is a time consuming process (repeating all the MS updates and anti virus updates etc) I would not wish to do it unnecessarily.
Neither my Task manager or MSConfig show any strange .exe in the start up, or 'Process' list. Malwarebytes reports a clean system as does Win Defender.
Still I cannot just ignore the feedback from my friend (although they also report receiving some spam from hotmail addresses since exchanging with my hotmail address ... so potentially it could be on one of those.)
My question: can you suggest another test I might use to check for a trojan. The chief suspect program is RealPlayer (installed on 7th June) or rather a vid. downloaded by RealPlayer.
Appreciate yr imput