i keep getting warnings from my norton firewall from a trojan called socket de trois. whats causing this? ive done a bit of research and no trojan seems ot be installed on my sytem. does this mean this is just someone trying to install it on my pc? what can i do about it also i noticed the adress in the details was odc.myhub.org odc is a filesharing client similiar to dc++ that i recently uninstalled, whats goin on?

hi echobunny, its your port 5000 that may be open or closed and not in stealth. are you running a firewall? if not install a firewall. it will stealth your ports. for some good info on firewalls go to www.thepublicworks.com security section and link up to simovits consulting, firewall guide, security dogs for some info on firewalls. also you may want to link up to www.pcflank.com and do a trojan and port test to see if you are trojaned or if any ports are opened. port 5000 is your plug n play port and sockets de trois is the trojan associated with that port. all the best, murve

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nip.nsf/docid/2002012210484436 You could also check this site out. :o)

There is a handy program for Gibson research that will disable the port and will allow you to toggle it on if you ever want to make your refrigerator etc. part of your home network: http://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm hth shep

it keeps coming up whenever i try to download a file from an ftp site. whats going on?

I am a 13 year old kid who likes to chat with his freinds online but now this realphx.com thing is screwing up my profile. Also the website realphx.com is down so i cant go to it. I dont know much about computers, so when i tried solarians link i couldnt figure it out. And i downloaded the cleaner thing but it didnt work. What should I do???