Repeated Trojan Attempts tonight
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This keep happening, and Family Historian 7 was the only program open, at least this last time.
Helen
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Jane Taubman
As you can see easily from your screen shot the program causing the problem is nothing to do with Family Historian and looks to be a Trojan located in your Windows folder. Clicking on the blue link for Trojan should give you advice on what to do.
I recommend ensuring your Antivirus is fully upto date and do a full scan of your PC and if you still don't find the culprit contact the Malware Bytes support.
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Ian Thirlwell
I already replied to this but my message doesn’t seem to have come through.
The problem is mentioned on the Malwarebytes forum as a ‘'false positive” &
should be fixed by updating your Malwarebytes.
Ian
From: Jane
Taubman
Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2021 11:44 AM
To: family-historian@groups.io
Subject: Re: [family-historian] Repeated Trojan Attempts
tonight As
you can see easily from your screen shot the program causing the problem is
nothing to do with Family Historian and looks to be a Trojan located in your
Windows folder. Clicking on the blue link for Trojan should give you
advice on what to do. I recommend ensuring your Antivirus is fully upto date and do a full scan of your PC and if you still don't find the culprit contact the Malware Bytes support.
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I also replied and it hasn’t come through yet - likely to be held if it had the image in it.
From: Ian Thirlwell via groups.io I already replied to this but my message doesn’t seem to have come through. The problem is mentioned on the Malwarebytes forum as a ‘'false positive” & should be fixed by updating your Malwarebytes. Ian From: Jane Taubman Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2021 11:44 AM To: family-historian@groups.io Subject: Re: [family-historian] Repeated Trojan Attempts tonight As you can see easily from your screen shot the program causing the problem is nothing to do with Family Historian and looks to be a Trojan located in your Windows folder. Clicking on the blue link for Trojan should give you advice on what to do. I recommend ensuring your Antivirus is fully upto date and do a full scan of your PC and if you still don't find the culprit contact the Malware Bytes support. -- Neil Grantham ------------------- Using FH 7 & AS 7 Researching Grantham, Skuce, Barrow, Birchall.
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Adrian Bruce
The folders in Windows\SystemApps all have weird endings. Most of mine end with cw5n1h2txyewy which looks like it might be the last part of the folder name in the screen shot. The days are long gone when I could find my way round \Windows !!
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Thank you, all. I panicked a bit. Ian: Malwarebytes does do the occasional false positive, so thank you for that assurance. Maybe it was to do with Windows 10's dreadful search facility in the bottom left of the screen: I wouldn't mind getting rid of the useless thing! Like you, Adrian, I can no longer find my way around Windows!
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Helen - I don't want to put a dampener on things, but I had the same Trojan warnings from Malwarebytes when using TMG rather than FH.
I ran a full scan with Norton and it found and removed a Trojan, since when, no more Malwarebytes messages. You might care to consider a full virus sweep of your machine as a precaution. Best wishes,
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rob.cook-genes@...
Please take the warning seriously - I also found a Trojan called Trojan.Kryptik.AQ. My malware program SpyHunter identified and removed it (April 1st)
It appeared that when I tried to close FH, it just hung. I had MyHeritage website open at the time, so I’m not sure the origin of the Trojan.
Best wishes
From: family-historian@groups.io <family-historian@groups.io> On Behalf Of John Liddle, Backwell, North Somerset - "Where the cider apples grow" via groups.io
Sent: April 5, 2021 3:02 PM To: family-historian@groups.io Subject: Re: [family-historian] Repeated Trojan Attempts tonight
Helen - I don't want to put a dampener on things, but I had the same Trojan warnings from Malwarebytes when using TMG rather than FH.
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Ian Thirlwell
This is mentioned in the Malwarebyes forum:
Ian
From: Helen at Darlington
Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 6:18 PM
To: family-historian@groups.io
Subject: [family-historian] Repeated Trojan Attempts tonight
This keep happening, and Family Historian 7 was the only program open, at least this last time.
Helen
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SearchApp.exe is normally a part of Windows in either C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32, so this one looks suspicious, especially as Malwarebytes has picked it up.
From: Helen at Darlington
Sent: Apr 3, 2021 at 11:40 AM To: family-historian@groups.io Subject: [family-historian] Repeated Trojan Attempts tonight This keep happening, and Family Historian 7 was the only program open, at least this last time. Helen
-- Neil Grantham ------------------- Using FH 7 & AS 7 Researching Grantham, Skuce, Barrow, Birchall.
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Thank you, Ian and and everyone. It is good of you to take the time to help, as of course, this does not concern Family Historian. I did a scan right away, and that was all clear. The next day - or yesterday - Windows 10 confronted me with its desire that I update sync settings and buy cloud storage - none of which suits me! I am now sure that Windows was the trigger.
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