After a somewhat brief Aikido class tonight I was enlisted by Crow to help rid a Vista machine of the Vundo trojan which found it’s way onto the machine (prior to Avast being installed).

Avast did a great job of finding most things and cleaning them up.  What it had trouble with was a few DLLs that were in use by the executing trojan.  I was pointed toward Unlocker to free the DLL’s of their executing process and remove the lock that windows places on these files.  Once the file was unlocked, it was able to be deleted by Avast and all was well.

(Photo Credit: bigux on Flickr)