I have been using AVG and Spybot S&D.

Tonight I tried a program call XOFTspy Portable that came with a U2 USB drive. It found wincap which records keystrokes and a email spy program. To get it to fix the problems I have to buy the program. It is only $15 so I may but it.

Given that I am about the only one seeing the problem I will shut the machine down till I find out what is happening. Maybe the google people can tell me.

EDIT: I know the answer would be to use ZoneAlarm. But I do not care for it. Last resort.

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If you found that on the pc I would probably reformat. There is a good chance something else is on there. Or that XOFTspy program is yanking your chain. I have never heard of it before. Generally, if it is not on majorgeeks.com, I don't touch it. Those guys check out programs pretty well.

Right now I am using Avast, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware. I also run "noscript" ad-on for firefox.

 

Can you install Wireshark and look at what your machine is sending out?

http://www.wireshark.org


Torben

 

Yeah, just rootkits. A good rootkit is a serious PITA to get rid of.


Torben

 

It may be a ploy to sell product. I forgot about that sort of thing. Thanks for saving me $15.

I ran Wireshark for a few hours, gave myself a good headslap, and installed Zone Alarm.

The machine I am running is fast compared to the 750 MHz box it replaced. The old machine worked quite well as long as you did not load anything that ran in the background. This one uses a AMD 2X processor so programs like Zone Alarm have a much lower impact on perceived performance.

I have not seen the google challange or any unwanted net activity, yet.

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I would uninstall xoftspy. It was once listed as rogue application.
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm.

Some good programs.
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_...tm#trustworthy

This online scan usually finds anything bad.
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeuse...ns/activescan/

I haven't got round to scanning my computer since this started happening, I'm going to do it later tonight.

 

I have a lot of faith in Zone Alarm. It will block unwanted outgoing traffic and I can figure out what to do about it.

Thanks

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