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I recently noticed that whenever I work on Words and Excell (the one's I use the most) and save a document it takes a lot of time to save. They aren't big documents. I also noticed that as soon as I hit the save button my internet connection starts working like sending the document somewhere. I have a dsl connection and my connection to the dsl modem is wireless. I can see the wireless light in my card working as soon as I hit the save button and as soon as the light stops blinking the hourglass icon on the mouse stops and the document is saved. I'm saving documents directly into my hard drive. I don't see why it has to send it somewhere!! My guess is I have some kind of infection, virus, trojan.... I run my antivirus (norton) with the latest definitions and it finds nothing. How can I find out whats happening? Please help.
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Welcome to the forum javish. I changed the title of your thread to be more descriptive. Please take a look at the forum Posting Rules.
From Quicklinks in my signature, download, update, and run both Ad-Aware SE and Spybot Search & Destroy. Let them delete all the spyware they find and also use the Immunize feature in Spybot to block quite a few baddies from ever getting back on your PC.
When that is done, download Hijackthis v1.99 and unzip it to a permanent folder of it's own so not temp and not on or in the desktop. I use c:\hjt on mine. Run a scan and create a log file. When the log opens in notepad (automatically) copy the contents and paste them here so we can have a look. Don't use it to fix anything at this point.
I ran Spyboat Search & Destroy and it said that my computer was clean. Then I ran Ad-Aware Se and it identified 2 files (TopMoxie & EzuLa). Here is the log of HijackThis:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0
Scan saved at 12:10:26 AM, on 12/23/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
