a few basic simple questions

From: Enquiries (Enquiries@globalart4u.com)
Date: 01/29/02 

From: "Enquiries" <Enquiries@globalart4u.com>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:03:41 -0000

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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