Mike: Thanks for the tips.
I've downloaded two of the programs, including Trojan Horse, which tells me I have 7 suspicious files, but doesn't eliminate them. (I guess I have to buy it to get to eliminate them.) I also used HouseCall, which found no viruses. I also defragged, cleaned tmp files, and tidied up disc space. It's running faster, but still screwy. Something is definitely affecting my computer. I hope I eliminate it before it drives me nuts. Thanks again, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. G. Devour" <mdev...@eskimo.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:09 AM Subject: Re: CS>Anti-Virus program -- OT > > 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] > [mdev...@eskimo.com ] > [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: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >
