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
>>
>
>
> >
>

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