How To Know If You Have A Virus Or Trojan/spyware

[iGuest 3]

How to know if you have a virus or trojan or spyware in xp open task manager by presing ctrl+alt+del an close all applacations now look at your cpu usage if it is above 4-5% you have a problem.

[Klass 0]

thats lame. as is most if not all of your postsyou wouldn't know If I sent you a virus as it does not use CPU Usage.So what do I do if I have Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2003, Vista?

[Sarah81 0]

thats lame. as is most if not all of your posts

 

you wouldn't know If I sent you a virus as it does not use CPU Usage.

 

So what do I do if I have Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2003, Vista?

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I would also think that it would be preferable - talking about viruses - to know *before* the programming finds its way onto the computer system. (In other words: I'd rather cough up some money for an antivirus that will catch it during the download process. It's just easier.)