Install the free anti virus program from www.avira.com and run it. Also try the open source anti-virus ClamAV (it won't interfere with any other anti-virus programs since you have to run the program manually to detect viruses, DNS spoofers and root-kits).
And of course, you could just run Ubuntu or some other Linux release and not worry about the problem at all. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In addition to checking viruses, you should run a spyware removal tool > (Spybot Search & Destroy?) too, maybe more than one. I helped disinfect > an XP machine a month or so back, where AVG didn't detect anything, but > Spybot found about two dozen nasties. > > Theresa > > > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 09:12 -0600, Sean Burns wrote: >> AVG is installed on that machine. I ran it and it didn't catch >> anything. I'll bring a liveCD tonight, like Robert suggested. >> See what happens. >> >> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:43:19PM -0600, Don Ellis wrote: >> > Sounds bizarre indeed. I found similar problems on a friend's machine. >> > Took it to my son, who installed the free anti-virus product whose name >> > I >> > forget at the moment. Took care of it very nicely, without losing >> > anything. >> > --Don Ellis >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
