hello.

[fiveround]

hello
i am new to this forum.
I am just a home P.C user running AVG FREE EDITION.
I am constlantly getting virus detected message.
"agrobot worm" which AVG cleans.
I seem to get this message when the pc is left idle for any length of time, yet have no real protection from it.

 

[2ffat]

Are you connected to a network? Agrobot spreads via a network if the password protection is weak.



James P. Cottingham

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
[tab][tab]Albert Einstein explaining his Theory of Relativity to a group of journalists.

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Also, if you are running WinME or XP, you will have to disable System Restore.. Run your av program.. beboot, run AVG again.. re-enable System Restore..

Murray

 

[fiveround]

thank you for the valuable help.
looked, learned, executed!!!

I use Soulseek P2P and sometimes Kazaa, (built in virus guard)but i'm inclined to think the problem was with Kazaa
as i have only just installed SLSK.
I have been d/l from Kazaa for a few weeks.

p3@500mhz win xp prof. 600k bb modem.

 

[Xemus]

Besides the obvious virus and worm propogation through P2P programs like these, most of them also come bundled with spyware. Here's a quick link for more info.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/p2p/

http://www.closedsocket.com