The Riff-Raff Element Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 We recently "upgraded" our office PC to Windows XP Professional. Ever since, whenever we use the dial-up connection data is being sent contiuously. Even if we close the browser, this one way traffic continues. I've tried changing browser from IE to Mozilla, run Bitdefender (though I am lacking the latest definitions because the download is unable to get past the outgoing data stream!) and Spybot. Spybot does find something called VX2/ but is unable to remove the files because they are "in use". Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here and how it might be fixed?Thanks,Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hegs Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 It does sound like spyware. Try running AdAware from www.lavasoft.de/ I've used this for a while and it always finds and removes this stuff. It you have a directory called VX2 maybe rename that to something else and reboot, that should prevent it from being hooked into IE on reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon 1 Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 XP will automatically try and update itself when you connect to the Internet. The SP2 update is quite massive and can take forever. Perhaps this is the problem. If so, disable auto update and/or get the SP2 update disk free in a computer mag and update the version you have. Let me know if this works.Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hegs Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Ad-aware has a special plugin to handle VX2 spyware, it sounds really nasty: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/addons/vx2cleaner.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted November 17, 2004 Author Share Posted November 17, 2004 Thanks guys - I'll have a go at both these approaches. Appreciate your input, Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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