Can I delete a Windows file to get rid of a Trojan?

Recently my system has been infected with a Trojan called
downloader.agent which has defied all attempts to get rid of it. It
creates an exe file called polall1l.exe which activies at 00.20. I've
just done a text search and found this string in two Windows files:
user.dat and localnrd.inf.

The latter was last altered September 27 and contains the name only.
Can I delete either or both of these files safely and will this get
rid of the problem?


a_baron[AT]ntlworld.com

Assuming you could, that doesn't clean up some of the side effects that some infectors will
leave behind. For example, changes made in the Registry.

Dave




"Alexander Baron" wrote in message

| Recently my system has been infected with a Trojan called
| downloader.agent which has defied all attempts to get rid of it. It
| creates an exe file called polall1l.exe which activies at 00.20. I've
| just done a text search and found this string in two Windows files:
| user.dat and localnrd.inf.
|
| The latter was last altered September 27 and contains the name only.
| Can I delete either or both of these files safely and will this get
| rid of the problem?
|
|
| a_baron[AT]ntlworld.com