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To: thecow who wrote (33599)	4/7/2003 11:10:20 AM
From: Martin E. Frankel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110581

Hi TC, Mark and all, Have a wierd problem on my Compaq Evo notebook N800W (workstation notebook) that developed when I plugged into a broadband connection at a Hilton Hotel. Running XP Pro with 2.2 Pentium 4 mobile cpu and 1 gig of ram. Norton antivirus is updated daily and runs in the background plus I do a full scan every night. Since hooking into that broadband connection, whenever I use IE6 (came with XP Pro)... even with a dialup connection, the user name and password "blocks" have words actively running across them just like someone is running IM and I'm a passive watcher. It now even happens at home using a dialup connection. I tried rescanning with NAV and scanned with Panda's Online Active Scan and with TrendMicro's online scanner, but everything came out clean. Anyone have any ideas? I never heard of or saw this problem before. Guess it's time to install a firewall, trojan cleaner, spyware cleaner and registry clearer, but I've been chicken to add them as I've heard pros and cons about so many of the different ones available. TIA for any help at figuring this problem out. Marty

To: thecow who wrote (33599)	4/7/2003 11:52:29 AM
From: Bicycle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

I know very little about Trusted Computing, but it doesn't sound good... againsttcpa.com Bye4Now, FD.

To: thecow who wrote (33599)	4/7/2003 9:40:50 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110581

you may be shocked to hear that i uninstalled NAV from my machines last week in order to install Kaspersky (KAV). my thinking was that i have recently read so much about KAV's super enhanced unpacking engines for scanning inside compressed files (an increasingly popular delivery method for trojans and worms and viruses), as compared to NAV's lagging unpackers. mcafee, also, has taken tremendous strides in unpacking engine technology, to the point that it has easily overtaken NAV in that department. so the KAV people went to great lengths to tell me to be sure to uninstall any other AV on my system before installing their product, that KAV will not get along with any other AV. so i imaged my drives (god bless powerquest) and said bye-bye to NAV. KAV went on, and the first thing it did was find an archived email from three years ago that was infected with I-Worm.KakWorm, which blew me away because i must have run a thousand scans with NAV since then and no detection was forthcoming. but KAV is known as a resource hungry AV, and despite 384mb ram on my w2k partition, KAV was causing lots of hanging, freezing, erratic behaviors. bummer. i restored my previous images, rolling back to the clean NAV installs, and thought things over a little bit. then a fellow gave me the idea... why not keep NAV as memory resident and just install the scanner component of KAV? excellent idea! <g> i went back and reinstalled KAV, this time not uninstalling NAV at all (but of course disabling it temporarily during KAV installation), making use of the custom installation feature which offers the choice of making KAV the mem resident or not (KAV calls it Monitor). i simply chose to install the scanner and upgrade components, not Monitor or any of the other Control Center stuff. works like a charm!! zero memory load, no conflicts with NAV, let alone the other programs on my machines, and i get the full blown protection of KAV's deep, unpacking engine technology whenever i want to run a scan. i couldn't be happier right now, having a back up AV with the reputation of Kaspersky, and being able to keep NAV right where i like it, which for me has been as my main, go-to antivirus program. btw, this is all 30-day full version free trial stuff with KAV... most excellent. i also recently added BOClean anti-trojan to my security layer, which as folks may know, is totally a memory resident AT, and i relegated TrojanHunter to scan only duties, much like KAV is now doing. suffice it to say, not a lot of nasties are finding their way onto my operating systems. edit in: KAV issues daily virus definitions, and enjoys a very good reputation for finding trojans as well as viruses.