On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:16 am, frankieh wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > 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). > > Numerous tests have shown that Nortons is one of the slower scanners > with a high CPU and memory footprint. > It isn't any more effective then any of the others, and its usually > more expensive. > > I look after allot of windows clients, and I've managed to keep them > all virus free, and didn't use Nortons on any of them. > (though I might if I want to convince them to upgrade their PC's.) Maybe thats why it came with the system. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org
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