RE: Anti-Virus, Malware and Anti-Hijacking Programs
From: denisedenise (denisedenise_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/26/05
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:43:02 -0700
I should also tell you that I have Windows XP and have SP2 installed. In
addition, all of the anti-virus, malware, etc, programs that I listed have
the latest updates.
"denisedenise" wrote:
> I have several anti-virus and spyware programs that I run several times a
> week, that include MS Malicious Software Removal Tool, AdAware, SpyBot, SBC
> Anti-Spy, McAfee VirusScan, McAfee Stinger, Trend SysClean, and I run a
> program in safe mode in DOS after I back up my registery. By the names of
> the programs, they all seem to search out viruses, worms and trojans.
>
> On two occasions within the past year, my accounts at two internet sites
> that include the transfer of money/selling or buying items have had proven
> hijacking attempts.
>
> In addition, and this is just about never heard of, when I was at WinMX
> yesterday, 3 songs in a time period of about 5 minutes were added to my list
> of songs that I wanted to download. I didn't add the songs to my list, they
> "added themselves to my list." They appeared and attempted to download. I
> instantly stopped the connection before the songs started to download and did
> a complete sweep of my computer using each program named above. It took me
> 10 hours (Trend SysClean took 8 hours!).
>
> My questions is: Do the above programs also scan for hijacking attempts or
> is there another program that I can download/run to see if someone is
> attempting to hijack my computer?
>
> I need to determine if someone is attempting to hijack my computer again
> because I just recently resumed using the 2 sites where money is involved.
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