Trojan, worm, or some bandwidth eating bug

[cuchumino81]

Well im having kind of a prob. I recently reinstalled WinXP on my comp, and to my disfortune forgot to installa firewall on it. I now have some type of bug in my system that is always sending information on my 56k telephone conection.

Dunno how to get rid of it. Any help or suggestions?

[Zooooot]

Any antivirus installed?

[cuchumino81]

yea AVG anti virus. doesn´t detect it though, but has helped to at least reduce the bug from sending info a bit


problem partially solved
Also installed a firewall. Tiny personal firewall. this firewall helped me to disable the bug, and free my bandwidth. It now doesn´t act up anymore. But it is just dormant in my HD.

[Zooooot]

those worms and viruses are clever little buggers- their first step is typically to disable or corrupt the antivirus.
My next step is to see if I can find any strange open apps or file shortcuts and google them to see if anyone has had similar problems. That process often leads me directly to a forum or antivirus site that helps explain the problem and gives options (and sometimes downloadable tools) to fix the problem.
If all else fails, backup important data and reinstall- it never hurts to be cautious.