Okay so the other day i am just doing some general surfing on the net ( cnn, espn..etc nothing odd) and my nortons 2005 pop ups saying I have a trojan, PWS.hooker affecting the file apihookdll.dll in windows/system32.....lovely. Now I run winxp pro (no sp2 installed, prirate copy i know i am scum) with a sygate personal firewall, router with firewall enabled, and all the latest patches from MS (minus sp2) and nortons up to date. The trojan was a bitch to remove. But its gone. The patch from nortons site did not work....lovely again....
Now I use firefox, just switched to it about a week or two ago. Is there anything else I could be doing to avoid this headache in the future? I use gmail, never download any attachments, scan all files I download....etc. Just a piss off. Not sure if there are some security settings in Firefox that i am missing, i do have java enabled as i post on some sites that require it. Any microsoft services that I should have off? i do have most of them disabled that i don't use but others i am not sure of there function. any ideas...besides not surfing!!!!
