UNP&P (OT)

[Robert Goodale]

Definitely a wise idea.  Ad-Aware by Lavasoft is a free program that
searches and cleans spyware.  I tried it and was amazed to see how many bits
of spy crap was on my system.  Once deleted my computer's performance
increased dramatically.

You can download Ad-Aware here:
http://www.lavasoft.nu/software/adaware/


I highly recommend it.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV

> Been experiencing some unexplainable slow downs on my hot shot nearly
> new pentium 4 machine the past couple weeks, and I started getting a bit
> suspicious as to what was going on. So I downloaded an anti Adware
> program, found a couple little Ad spyware files... no biggie... also
> downloaded an anti trojan program... it found no trojans but found port
> 5000 open... a known trojan port. Seems like the only way to close this
> port is to turn off the Universal Plug and Play feature on XP... and as
> I didnt need this feature... and dont want it anyways... I downloaded a
> program to disable the thing and wooooaaahh!! Suddenly all the speed was
> back in my machine. Its down right cooking with speed now.
>
> I dont really know what was up... but something was utilizing that port
> and it was taking up a lot of my CPU's attention. I think I gotta
> recommend turning off this << Feature >> of XP.
>
> Cheers
>
> RicB
>
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> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
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