Virus/ Trojan detection

[diddi]

have you considered a disk fragmentation problem. i have found that it can make considerable performance change by

1 using a decent defrag program (ie NOT microsoft supplied)
2 partitioning the OS from the data (better for recovery in case of OS crash)

@ Domski big tick for superantispyware. good for really nasty ones.

 

[Expiry]

I ran superantispyware, last night and it detected a couple of Trojans, about 8 adware (although 5 of these where things that I'd happily uploaded and knew what they were) and about 900 cookies.

I've deleted them all, so we'll see if that makes a difference.

Is that number of items a problem or does it really depend on the nature of those files?

 

[diddi]

quite a lot if sites deposit cookies, for various purposes (eg MrExcel cookie stores your "remember me status") the issue is that some site's cookies store info that other people might find interesting and so arises any number of trojans which scan through your cookies for info and relay the findings to be misused.

i remove my cookies every session.

the trojans might only be few in number but may be anything from a bit of harmless market research to quite nasty. remove them all