I have been having trouble with my computer slowing down over the last week or so. There are times when I can’t even get on the internet the browser will open but it takes for ever to load the page. Any way I call the provider and the tech had me go start/run/cmd/ netstat. With the list from the netstat scan he noticed that there was something active on port 12080 and said it was possibly a Trojan. I have done everthing I can think of to find info on this to no avail. I did all the checks and scans you could think of and everything comes up clean?? While I am on the net I will do the netstat scan and the last time it showed that there were 10 of them with a established link. What am I missing here :
Thanks hollywood
Well, WebShield (an avast providers) listens on port 12080 to scan web traffic.
Can you see if this link could help you on understanding webshield working? http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=1647.msg100190#msg100190
Dear Hollywood63,
A lot of computers nowadays, especially on ADSL or broadband
are owned by somebody else, one asumes that there are
thousands and thousands of zombie computers playing
their spam or snooping or malware games on the internet, without their real owners knowing this. This could be even through a trojaned program your computer trusts or getting scripted malware from a visit to a site with in bedded malware script. Once zonealarm was terminated on my box once. Best is to run programs like Enditall to see what is running or needs to be halted. HijackThis to log what should and should not be on your computer. You can then be advised
where your slowness stems from. Some services may slow
your box considerably Microsoft update services, messenger
services, if you’re on XP use Hitman Pro, it is an anti-spyware
suite of programs and creates fine reports. Throw out what
you do not need on temporary files, cookies etc., System Security Suite 1.04 is a nice proggie for that, and moreover it
is free, but whenever you download, preferably open source
programmes, be sure to scan them with Avast before install.
AVAST saved my neck with indicating a nasty virus, that
almost took my bios to ruin, after clearing that one, a complete reinstall this time with a RestoreIt on the hard disk, so in
case of big trouble you can always go back. Takes some space on your harddisk, but sure as hell worth you while.
I hope you get some speed in your windhose box.
Kindest Regards,
POLONUS
Hi… my pc was also running very very slowly and to a complete stand still sometimes… Please try this before you panic any more about trojans…
go to control panel, then add/remove programms… then go to avast, click on change/remove, you will then get another window open giving you the option of delete, repair etc, click to repair… see if this works… it did for me… angie