Well one way to find out if you computer has a torjan is to get a known good clean copy of netstat and useit to show ALL internet connections and listening prots, one way you can protect your self is to make sure you dont open up any attacments from any where with out at the very least knowing that the person sent the attachment to you and makeing sure that its been scanned my a good AV program.. Most of the AV programs will detect and remove most well known trojans.
From what you are saying about ZA and the updates it could be a virus or a trojan or just a plain old hack or someone playing with you via NetBIOS... or.. or .. or.. get the idea. ;) One whay i have found to avoide a lot of hack attempts is to use non-standard softwear and is not out there all over the place like Outlook. I used Eudora.. and i never used IE (I would have deleted it totaly if i could but too bad its part of the heart of windows) and verious other things.. If you cant get auto-updater to work you can go the the MS web-site and download them manualy and in stall them manualy.. but if you know you have been hacked i would recomend that you save only TEXT files (not even *.doc files as they have formating stuff in there that could be used to attack you system) and do a fresh install. HTH Craig On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:03:41PM -0000, Enquiries wrote: > Dear Group > > How do you know when you are infected by a trojan or someone has control of > your pc from a backdoor? > > Is it when your windows update's always continuously refuse to update from > the microsoft site, including the ever popular critical updates to patch > security holes? > When trying to update IE from microsoft it does not work? > When you discover every so often that the hard drive when wiped clean > suddenly becomes a 1gb hard drive instead of a 20 gb hard drive - has > happened several times to me? > when the firewalls (zonealarm) every so often is disabled while surfing? > Other strange happenings... > > How does one detect what the problem is and cure it, especially when you are > a beginner? If using a trojan to fight a trojan to cure the problem how > does you know which ones to trust, as I have found there seems to be a lot > of programmes out there saying they can find this that and the other but > what if it is something really specialised? > > Thaque > > >
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