- Report: A third of spam spread by RAT-infested PCs
- Posted by Kimberlee on December 9th, 2003
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5113080.html
An article worth reading...and a good reason for everyone to take a few
minutes and keep their systems updated, firewalled and virus-protected!
~Kimberlee
- Posted by PC HUA on December 9th, 2003
Interesting, thanks.
What about dial-up?
and if there is no (POP3) email setup and only web email is used on the PC,
can email be sent? because my brother's PC (XP) is showing heaving internet
traffic even when all internet applications are closed.
PC HUA
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 03:32:12 GMT, Kimberlee
<Kimberlee@delete~to~SENDMAILhotmail.com> wrote:
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www.huaonline.com
My Homepage is my Castle
- Posted by David W. Hodgins on December 9th, 2003
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:25:29 +1100, PC HUA <home@huaonline.com> wrote:
Doesn't matter.
Many worms will use their own smtp server, or p2p software like kazza, or
IRC. The Swen worm can also post to usenet.
His computer is probably infected with either a worm, or a spammer's trojan.
He should start with http://www.claymania.com/nav-map.html
Follow the links under basics, I think I have a virus, to links to
some virus scanners.
If virus scanners can't find anything, or the traffic continues after removing
all of the found viruses (keep track of which ones are found/removed, by virus
name, not just the file names), post back here with the results.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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Change nospam.invalid to rogers.com to reply by email.
- Posted by Spalls Hurgenson on December 9th, 2003
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 06:24:31 GMT, David W. Hodgins
<dhodgin1661@nospam.invalid> wrote:
And don't forget to disable XP's "Automatic Update" downloading
(Control Panel->System->Automatic Update tab). Needless to say, that
can take up a significant chunk of bandwidth. Just make sure to
manually download the updates yourself ;-)
Other programs may be silently updating themselves too (antivirus,
utility programs, etc), so check that as well.
