On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:33 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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. Kaj: I know nothing about windows. But while I had XP installed it came with Norton. While running norton I never was infected with anything. But while installing XP the last thing I did was install norton and while downloading the database that was when I got all kinds of infection once the database was installed it was AOK. They do have on their website removers for most infections, IIRC you have to be a paid up member to get them ($15 or so). -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org
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