> What's the best dianostic for viruses? I've got updated Norton and > AVG, but still something has screwed up my computer. Any ideas?
I've used Trend Micro's PC-Cillin. They also have a free online virus checker called House Call, which you can access from their site. I've used that as well. Visit: http://www.antivirus.com In addition, I recently dealt with a trojan that snuck into my machine with something I downloaded from a newsgroup. It installed itself and was interfering with the tools I needed to get rid of it, but hopefully the firewall in my DSL box stopped it connecting anywhere. A few things I found useful were: ** Trojan Hunter from http://www.misec.net/ ... free trial available. It's good enough I may go ahead and pay and register. They also have a program called Autostart Explorer that shows you what's being executed on boot-up. This found the suspicious file. ** TCPView from http://www.sysinternals.com shows you the TCP port connections that your machine is currently hosting. ** Spybot Search & Destroy from http://spybot.eon.net.au/ ... takes care of any adware/spyware that's lurking on your system, and can be set up to block a lot of known threats when browsing. ******* GREAT SITE: http://www.helponthe.net/ and http://forums.techguy.org/ ... Really good resource for help with the nitty gritty technical stuff. A lot of questions you might want to ask have already been answered if you do a search. The gurus appear to be very attentive and skilled. Hope that helps. Compute safely. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
