Dear list...
I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you
have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness :
A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years
old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special,
school-related apps. The PC came with WinXP pre-installed.
The first thing I did was to install Mozilla, OpenOffice and some
sort of firewall, called ZoneAlarm. Now, I thought it was safe....
Suddenly, when she tries to send an e-mail (from within Mozilla, of
course, I'm not THAT stupid), up pops a message from our ISP saying
that the box is compromized, accordingly the smtp-server won't
accept the mail. In fact, her IP was blacklisted.
Some on-line security scans, revealed no less than 159 trojans,
worms and viruses !
After heavy googling around, I purchased a spyware/trojan scanner
called XoftSpy, which cleaned most of the shit. But nevertheless, a
spyware trojan keeps coming in (SAHAgent). No matter what I do.
(The bugger doesn't show up in ControlPanel --> Remove software).
Well, I know next to nothing about Windows, but before I subscribe
to a windows-list (which I would hate, really), I would like to ask
if you can recommend :
1. A good, reliable firewall for Windows (preferably OSS and free) ?
2. A spyware/trojan/worm cleaner capable of removing all malware ?
3. Shutting down the whole kaboodle and wait for SP2 ?
Many thanks and apologies in advance
Kaj Haulrich.
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*sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation*
* http://haulrich.net *
*Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7*
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