[Thinkpad] OT: Cleaning up a home network

[Bruce Markowitz]

He is using his desktop as a wifi server? Yikes!
Be careful with Ad Aware, it can destroy your winsock. Make sure to have a
backup or restore point before running it. And check to see if his hard
drive is so full that he has no proper swap file
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald MacQueen" <dmacq at erols.com>
To: <thinkpad at stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 7:53 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] OT: Cleaning up a home network


> A friend of mine asked me to come look at his home network. He has a
> cable connection coming into a desktop machine and then wireless
> connections from there. He said the gateway desktop runs very slowly.
>
> He say that he runs Spysweeper, which I know nothing about, religiously.
> I plan to take a cd with SpyBot Search and Destroy as well as Ad-aware.
> What I don't have is a tool to allow me to easily identify what programs
> Task Manager says are running.
>
> Any suggestions for my toolkit? Any other ideas about what to look for?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Donald
>
>
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