What Is A Trojan 32 Generic?

I got a question from someone asking what a trojan generic 32 is and I am going to explain what it is you should do to remove it and what it is. You will get all of the necessary download tools at the bottom to determine whether, or not it is a false positive. If it is follow the steps below to remove it.

What Is A Trojan Generic 32?

This is a trojan that is made for a 32 bit operating system. Now do not panic it is actually very easy to remove these depending on the situation. I am going to assume that since you have internet access to comment that you can download programs onto your computer. You said that you were getting it when ever opening Visual Basic. Now this is a false positive or the antivirus that you are using is saying that there is a trojan attached to the program it's self. Now there are some tools to check at the bottom of the post to determine if the program is infected or not. Please remove the software if it found to be malicious.

What If It Is A False Positive?

Well I do not know what kind of antivirus program you are using however you should be able to blacklist or whitelist the program so that it is not counted as a trojan any more. However do not do this until after you scan with the programs below. There is a possibility that the antivirus is ringing up the program as malicious probably through some sort of script shield that is in the product. But if you do not want to deal with these false positives you might want to consider using another form of antivirus such as Avast!

What If It Is Malicious?

If the scanners below do say that this is a trojan then all you have to do is remove the program by uninstalling it and go to the Microsoft website and download the most recent version of visual basic and fill out the free version. Other than that your system should be fine. As always I recommend you checking as many other sources as possible to detect malware so use at least 2 of the below scanners. That way you can determine that it truly is a trojan and not a false positive.

Scanners

http://www.superantispyware.com/
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/

Visual Basic / Studio
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/office-dev-tools-for-visual-studio