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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 20 Jan 2008 1:44 pm |
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Wiz, from reading a bit about the symptoms of trojan horses, I suspect that I might have had one. The one symptom that my PC seems to display is that it seems to run slower.
I have AVG for a virus scanner, that scans once a day. It never detects any problems.
I also scanned with the 3 spyware/adware programs I have.
Spyware Doctor: It found some adware called Caishow. Deleted.
Spybot S&D: It found Doubleclick - Tracking cookie. Deleted
Adaware: It found another tracking cookie. Deleted.
From this, would you have any way of determining if I have removed trojans, ads, spyware off my system?
I tried to learn from the thread about trojans( a lot of it were exchanges between you and b0b), but it was way over my head and I didn't dare try any of that stuff.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Bent |
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John Roche
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England
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Posted 20 Jan 2008 2:05 pm
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Bent, have you tried to defrag you C drive or run a Reg
cleaner .Sometimes if you uninstall or delete stuff from your computer it leaves behind a lot of cr*p which will slow down your computer.. think of your hard drive as a jig-saw that you have completed , you can see what the picture is, now scramble all the jig-saw bits and you cannot make sense of it , it's the same with the hard drive , bit's get all mixed up, defraging will restore the picture and then will be able to find things faster, of course it's more complicated then that, |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 20 Jan 2008 4:25 pm
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| SUre, John, I'll try that..again. I did it not too long ago. But then there isn't much to be fragmented, I only use 20% of the HD's capacity. But it won't hurt. Thanks for the reminder. |
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Wiz Feinberg
From:
Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2008 8:02 am
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Bent;
Unless you see some manifestation of hostile activity on your PC, don't assume that you are infected with a Trojan. Follow John's advice first.
Also, schedule and run Chkdsk during your next reboot. To do this use these steps:
- Open My Computer
- Right-click on the C drive icon
- Select "Properties" from the right-click options list
- When the Properties sheet open click on the TOOLS tab
- Under "Error checking" click on "Check Now."
- Place a check mark in fron of "Automatically fix file system errors."
- Click on "Start," in that box
- An alert box should pop up notifying you that the C disk cannot be locked for error checking, etc, and will ask if you would like to schedule it to run during your next reboot. Click on YES, then close out all options boxes and all open programs, then restart the computer. Chkdsk will run automatically during the boot process. DO NOT TOUCH ANY KEYS WHEN THE DISK CHECK SCREEN FIRST APPEARS (during the restart)! Doing so will cancel the scan.
- Watch the progress indicators. There are only three tests and when the last one has completed you will see a very brief report. Look for the words "One or more errors were found and fixed." After displaying the chkdsk report your computer will reboot, within one or two seconds.
You are using very good security programs. Keep them updated regularly. Spybot is excellent at detecting and removing Trojans is updated every Wednesday. AVG is updated numerous times every day as is Spyware Doctor. Ad-Aware is great at finding tracking cookies (LMAO) and various advertising programs and is updated every now and then.
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 21 Jan 2008 1:33 pm
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John and Wiz I did what you recommended. I thank you both for your advice.
Bent |
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