How well does McAfee rate for its anti-virus software?

Here is a website that lists tons o' various processes that you might find running on a Windows machine when you look at Task Manager: [link] My boss and I found a bunch of stuff running on our computers that the above link says are viruses, trojans, etc., but when my boss ran McAfee it failed to find anything bad.

I'm running McAfee now - so far it hasn't found anything.

Umm - I recognize some of the processes the site lists as trojans as legit processes offhand. Also some of the others (iexplore.exe for example) are legit processes that also have trojans that steal the name. I would take McAfee's word on this one, because the site is totally misleading.

Followup: a little googling shows that the site is advertising for

(http://www.pcintegrityscanner.com

That's why they include legitamate windows processes in with actual virsuses and trojans - to scare you into switching from your current virus scanner to PcIntengrityscanner.

Bah.

And thanks, Typo Boy.

tommyrot, if you're still worried, Symantec offers an online virus scan through their website. You don't have to own their software to use it. It doesn't clean, I don't think, but it does list results including virus name.

Where should I be looking for my Netscape 7.2 history file and bookmarks file? Running Windows XP. Today Netscape decided to lose my bookmarks, but manages to retain history. I'd like to find the actual files to copy or replace or whatever. I've done half-assed piecemeal backups and may have something that might work, but can't seem to find anything other than the vanilla default bookmark file.

Nebbermind, wrong browser...

Netscape and Mozilla and Firefox use a generically named "bookmarks.htm" file. Do a search on your drive for any you can find.

You are more likely to find any of the above under some "mozilla" folder on your HDD, perhaps under \documents and settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla on windows XP, or other places.

Still? Searching for bookmark.htm or html seems your best bet.

Remember to search for hidden folders and files.

Thanks Daniel. That found me some files, but yet, not ones that make sense with the amnesia of this morning. Alas.

Also, it's pretty unlikely that in my half-assed backups that I saved these hidden files.

t eta spoke too soon. Found one from a couple days ago and we're all back. Thank you!

Hey Eddie, and those that were helping with ubuntu--that link you sent me totally looked like it was the problem, but I couldn't get the fix to work. Oh well. I've finally been able to back up all my files and music, so I'm getting ready to wipe the drive clean and start off fresh with kubuntu. This time, no transparency stuff.