Shut down problem in windows xp

from what i understand from my brother and dad....
they seem to think that most viruses are programmed to "get around" the big name guys. they have always reccomended the lesser known and free anti-virus stuff. right now i use avg

 

AVG is very good.

 

While that was the only process that I could see active. There were others that were caught while trying to start up. Two events in particular were found due to their unusual name. I'd never seen this dll used by any software I have installed. What file relied on this (ccSvcHst)? I have no clue, I did not run dependancy checks. I simply allowed my software to do the work after I noticed the issues.

I also had a variant of downloader and bloodkill. Both low threats by definition. But still a royal pain in the ### My best guess, downloader triggered many of the events when it started to retrieve other trojans.

I noted the activity rather soon. And pulled this PC offline. I don't rely on software as much as I used to. But I am aware of what "should" be coming in and out of my PC at all times. When the activity increases tremendously, and I'm simply parked on a page....oh well.

It doesn't take long for something to get on board my PC's. I'm sitting on a fairly fast connection.

BTW, Comodo simply choked on all these issues. It took 2 runs from 2 differant cleaners and AV to get them.

 

Good point. I didn't mean to imply I had no firewall at all. We have four computers up and running here at home at the moment, I use a hardware firewall for our network.

I'm currently using Ubuntu 8.04 as my Linux flavor of the month, it does not come with a firewall by default (other than iptables).

 

iptables is one of the oldest (and best) ways to implement a firewall.