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About Dave Mitch
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Trouble shooting in any of the following areas: Virus / Spy-ware / Mal-ware issues, Windows, Linux, virtual environments such as VMWare, Virtual ToolBox. Vast and varied hands-on expertise in a range of open source network security tools and utilities.Have worked on projects requiring practical implementation and configuration tweaking of Intrusion Detection / Prevention Systems, Enterprise-class Patch Management Solutions, Customization of Network Audit Framework and Penetration Test Tool Compilation. Consultant for corporations, NOCs (network Operations Centres) in the area of Virtual appliances for office(and home) environments for secure browsing / traffic monitoring / Anti-spam / "anti-phising" with content filtering capability.
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Virus/Spyware/Malware trouble shooting, Windows, VMWare, Linux. With over 10 years of industry experience in the Information Security field, I would be able to offer my experience and time to solve your problem. If any solution requires more time and effort or you require a customized product, I would be able to do so for a small fee.
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You are here: Experts > Computing/Technology > Internet/Network Security > Internet/Network Security > System intrusion
Expert: Dave Mitch
Date: 7/3/2008
Subject: System intrusion
Question
It appears a program has been placed on my system that is in effect making my computer spam others. All I see is my e-mail scanner scanning the outgoing messages. It varies by volume but I have seen the taskbar full of icons. Spam blockers prevent spam from being received, how do I identify the program and stop my system from spamming others?
Answer
You need to first sanitize your system.
There are many ways of doing this. Your existing "e-mail scanner" might not have been updated with the latest updates. So it is recommended that you download a fresh (clean) anti-spyware + anti-virus and run a full system scan after having installed the software.
Two recommended tools are
for Anti-Spyware: SpyBot-SD available at
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
for Anti-Virus:ZASS box shot
ZoneAlarmŽ Internet Security Suite available at
http://www.zonealarm.com/store/application?namespace=zls_order&origin=catalog_ma...
There are numerous other products some of which are equally good as the ones suggested above.
If you don't want to try any new software, you could try an "online scan" available at many of the leading anti-virus software vendors such as McAfee (Freescan) at http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
I could also help you out by doing the diagnostics of your infected system - online. This would entail a small fee. Do let me know if you need any more assistance.
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