Calling all geeks!
Jun. 30th, 2004 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperOkay, so as of late I've been noticing a disturbing spike in the usage of bandwidth on our DSL bills, so ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird has advised me and the rest of the house that we should be verifying that our network machines are clean of any spyware or virii or other nasty little bugs that might have snuck in under our radar, since some of these bastards can in fact do that now even if you don't do stuff like open email attachments and the like.
With this in mind, I need to put out a call for assistance! I'm pretty sure my box is good, as I regularly install Windows Updates as soon as they come in and I've got active anti-virus software on the system. But I want to helpmamishka with her PC, and since I've never actually had to do a thorough cleaning on a (possibly) infected box before, I would like to solicit recommendations for the best way to go about doing this. I have heard others frequently mention things like AdAware and Spybot and suchlike; what programs do y'all find are best at finding the crap and nuking it? And do I want to run something like this before or after slapping all current required updates onto the box? (It's a Win98 box.)
Anything else I need to know for this mission of machine inspection is also solicited. Thanks in advance, folks. :)
solarbird has advised me and the rest of the house that we should be verifying that our network machines are clean of any spyware or virii or other nasty little bugs that might have snuck in under our radar, since some of these bastards can in fact do that now even if you don't do stuff like open email attachments and the like.With this in mind, I need to put out a call for assistance! I'm pretty sure my box is good, as I regularly install Windows Updates as soon as they come in and I've got active anti-virus software on the system. But I want to help
mamishka with her PC, and since I've never actually had to do a thorough cleaning on a (possibly) infected box before, I would like to solicit recommendations for the best way to go about doing this. I have heard others frequently mention things like AdAware and Spybot and suchlike; what programs do y'all find are best at finding the crap and nuking it? And do I want to run something like this before or after slapping all current required updates onto the box? (It's a Win98 box.)Anything else I need to know for this mission of machine inspection is also solicited. Thanks in advance, folks. :)