My friend has his own laptop and he uses it everyday. He got grounded because his father found out about some messages he sent on MySpace and just information that he wasn't telling his dad. I guess his father installed a trojan or some other kind of program on his computer that allows him to see everything he does, as his friend I'm trying to find out what you can do... is there a certain way you can find it... a program or something you can do without harming the computer, he could care less about having his father find out... any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated!
2006-09-26 14:54:53 · 3 answers · asked by Dave 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Free Anti-virus:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.free-av.com/
http://www.trendmicro.com/hc_intro/default.asp
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Other Anti-virus help:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/
http://www.cert.org/other_sources/viruses.html
Free Online Virus Checks:
http://onlinescan.avast.com/
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
Single file Scanner:
http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus.html
Free Anti-Adware/Malware/Spyware protection:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 I recommend ewido!!!
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Free Online Spyware Scan:
http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php Very good for newbies!
Once these are run, use these,
Free Security Analyizer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsa2/default.mspx
Free Registry Repair:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Have fun but be safe!
2006-09-26 15:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he has a trojan, most decent virus scanners will find and deal with it. If its software, try checking the add/remove programs list for anything you're not sure about.
2006-09-26 21:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by Goffik 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have Windows you need to download Cygwin. It is a control center for your computer, it will do anything. You can delete anything from there. I don't know how you would go about deleting something like that though.
2006-09-26 22:05:17 · answer #3 · answered by christy f 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋