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Name: mindion
Date: October 16, 2007 at 03:29:29 Pacific
Subject: Downloading by itself
OS: Windows XP Professional S
CPU/Ram: Intel Celeron. 512MB Ram
Model/Manufacturer: Dell Dimension 2400
Comment:

I have a problem

My computer seems to be downloading on it's own. I've been downloading a torrent, it was averaging on 20KB/s, which was adequate, but now averages on 2KB/s

Watching the bytes downloaded in task manager, it seems to be downloading at 25KB/s, and I am on a a less than speedy connection, so this seems to take over my internet.

I recently discovered that I had a worm called 'sasser' so to be cautious I did a complete reformat, but backing up important files beforehand.

But since the reformat, it seems to have gotten even worse. I have Zonealarm in place, and in 2 days, it has blocked over 16,000 access attempts.

I have run AVG, bazooka and adaware, and they've returned nothing. I was wondering what the best tool/method would be to work out what I have, or how to go about beginning to correct it.


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Response Number 1
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: October 16, 2007 at 09:31:47 Pacific
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Try this, Download Avast Free to your desktop, disable your present AV, install Avast and let it do a bootscan on reboot. Move all it finds to the chest.
There are also lots of good free programs in the red link listed on 1 page with basic instructions. I would suggest running those also.

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Response Number 2
Name: mindion
Date: October 16, 2007 at 16:59:20 Pacific
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Last night, in waiting for a reply, I started having a look at other posts, and have already installed all those programs. But I'll definitely try a bootscan on reboot.

Thanks


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Response Number 3
Name: mindion
Date: October 16, 2007 at 17:25:57 Pacific
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Done, and unfortunately, this too returned nothing


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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: October 16, 2007 at 18:41:03 Pacific
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This free online scan might help you:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php
remove all it finds

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Response Number 5
Name: mindion
Date: October 16, 2007 at 20:58:26 Pacific
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I ran the scan, and it picked something up, something called Switch Dialer. I got rid of it, and restarted the computer. Comodo is still reporting access attempts though.

As a matter of fact, this is one of them. Im not sure wether it is to be trusted or not:

[URL=http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firewallqueryhd4.jpg][IMG]http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6633/firewallqueryhd4.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]


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Response Number 6
Name: mindion
Date: October 16, 2007 at 20:59:28 Pacific
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