Hi, I have widows xp and although this is off the topic abit, I would like to know how would you know if you had a trojan in your computer (I don't have one) and would nortons or another antivirus program pick it up when you do a scan.

Yeap, nothing to do with XP, but If your AV is upto date it should find it... Have you checked Nortons site?? Maybe thats the best place to check on viruses if you use Nortons.

Look for an oily ring somewhere on the case. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

Sue I have been using Norton 2002 with XP for 2 months and have had moderate success. I have received 2 trojan viruses and both were detected by Norton. Norton was unable to destroy the virus and placed it in quarantine. Symantec's support did not help and I requested help on this and another XP post. I was advised the download Moosoft's "The Cleaner" trojan virus cleaner and to use AVG (free Antivurus software). Both Moosoft and AVG detect and destroy the trojans and I have used both successfully for about a month. Hope that helps. JRF

I had 3 trojans that neither N@rton, S@phos, The Cleaner or A\/G could pick up, all 3 of which were crippling and only freeware trial of TDS picked them up for me. Despite them being in the knowledge base of Norton, AVG and The Cleaner. I'm sure other programs do but it struck me as odd that those mainstream virii checkers couldn't detect them. TDS 'tr0jan defence suite' is a trojan only scanner, and specialise in the detection of them (i heartily recommend using it - but it helps if you are confident with powerful software) :) Everyone i know bar a couple of people discovered a trojan of some sort on their system with this, its methods of cearching for virii are quite possibly unmatched. Nuff pimpin, I was just very impressed :) http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/