Re: Should my PC be sending and receiving data onto/from the internet on its own?

admyc wrote:

Hello,

I think I might have some sort of mal-ware on my computer. The reason
for this is that my anti-virus software (AVG free 7) has recently
found and deleted (I think) some viruses all of which had 'Trojan
horse downloader' in part of their name


Where? Under which circumstances?

> and since then my MSIE6

browser has been slightly odd, for example when I click on its icon to
launch MSIE6 and my computer connects to the internet over its dial-up
connection the MSIE browser window takes a lot longer to appear then
it used to.


There's your problem. As a user you shouldn't be able to run MSIE at all.
.