fourspdtom
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- Oct 9, 2007
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hi again
been a bit since my last problem post. seems my last couple suspected issues went away after a restore point, uninstall and reinstall of webroot spysweeper, uninstalled webroot firewall but just using xp firewall now. also set only trend micro to start at restart, then i start webroot after startup settles. everything has seemed normal lately although restarts are still a bit slow. decided to run spybot and hjt today.
spybot found 4 entries for "RegistrySmart" and a good handfull of usage tracks. hjt looked normal, nothing new,, but the ads spy function found quite a few alternate data streams, about half connected to a temp folder,, and the other half connected to items in the favorites folder.
what are these? and do i just "fix" them thru hjt? any way to know what they are connected to or being used for? we had removed a few of these before when cookiegal helped me a while back ["desktop MRI disabled"], since uninstalling webroot firewall and using xp again, have i opened up for another infection?
my main concern is and has been desktop spying-viewing [ i play cards online] , is it possible these are anything related ? even with xp firewall on, remote assist and file sharing off , spysweeper and trendmicro always running,, is it even possible for someone to easily [and without my knowledge] spy on my desktop??
thanx for the help [and patience] once again
been a bit since my last problem post. seems my last couple suspected issues went away after a restore point, uninstall and reinstall of webroot spysweeper, uninstalled webroot firewall but just using xp firewall now. also set only trend micro to start at restart, then i start webroot after startup settles. everything has seemed normal lately although restarts are still a bit slow. decided to run spybot and hjt today.
spybot found 4 entries for "RegistrySmart" and a good handfull of usage tracks. hjt looked normal, nothing new,, but the ads spy function found quite a few alternate data streams, about half connected to a temp folder,, and the other half connected to items in the favorites folder.
what are these? and do i just "fix" them thru hjt? any way to know what they are connected to or being used for? we had removed a few of these before when cookiegal helped me a while back ["desktop MRI disabled"], since uninstalling webroot firewall and using xp again, have i opened up for another infection?
my main concern is and has been desktop spying-viewing [ i play cards online] , is it possible these are anything related ? even with xp firewall on, remote assist and file sharing off , spysweeper and trendmicro always running,, is it even possible for someone to easily [and without my knowledge] spy on my desktop??
thanx for the help [and patience] once again