Poker stars

[sheebe]

undefinedundefined Hello I had a question about Poker Stars. I work on computers at a vidio store and until they started playing poker stars they ran smoothly, now lately there have been a lot of trojans, I understand that if it was a casino program they are more sophisticated. Not to mention the fact that a lot of kids get on the computer and do what they please. At first I made it so each user had to have a name and password but the owner got to antsy and told me not to worry about doing that. So is it possible that poker stars is the culprit? I realize that these days nothing is full proof but it is driving me crazy! Any suggestions would be so appreciated. Thank you,
Sheebe

[sheebe]

[QUOTE=sheebe]undefinedundefined Hello I had a question about Poker Stars. I work on computers at a vidio store and until they started playing poker stars they ran smoothly, now lately there have been a lot of trojans, I understand that if it was a casino program they are more sophisticated. Not to mention the fact that a lot of kids get on the computer and do what they please. At first I made it so each user had to have a name and password but the owner got to antsy and told me not to worry about doing that. So is it possible that poker stars is the culprit? I realize that these days nothing is full proof but it is driving me crazy! Any suggestions would be so appreciated. I have two anti virus programs on all of them and AVG I feel is awesome next to Norton.
Thank you
Sheebe

[Force Flow]

So what is it you are trying to do? Set up user profiles or clean all the spyware and malware off of the workstations?

[sheebe]

Well, I have spysweeper on all computers but since I am not there to often a young man told me that when spysweeper comes up and says it found something in the memory and would you like to have it taken out they just shut it down! So what is the point if they don't have knowledge about computers? It just seems to me that since poker stars is on all of the computers now that is when all the trouble has started with trojans and viruses they had been clean and running smoothly until they put poker stars on them. When I first started to take care of them he had NO virus protection on any of them! In this area where I live I have also fixed other people's systems and they to had no virus programs on theirs which blows me away. My husband and I have fourteen computers, four Soyo's raided, some Abit boards raided, A Asus board same as your board but a 2500xp, and Gygabyte boards. (might have not spelled that right.) They are our babies and we have everything but the moon on them, if you have a computer you should take care of it. I am just frustrated with all the effort I put in to them I am just trying to figure out what is going on, So I can print out other suggestions and take it to the owner so he can read them since he knows nothing about what he is putting on his systems.

[Force Flow]

Well, to start off, AVG is a very good (and free!) AV program. Kerio and Sygate are firewalls which should help stop some of the junk from getting stuck on the workstations. Don't put on both. One is sufficient.

As for removing what spyware is already lodged on the workstations, use both Adaware and spybot. All of these software packages are free and help computers run much more efficiently.

Adaware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

Kerio :http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_download.html
Sygate: http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php

[sheebe]

Force Flow,
You are awesome! Thank you. I heard spybot is excellent and the other two programs I heard of also. I love AVG too seems what norton doesn't pick up AVG does. Again thank you and I will download and burn on disk so I can go down there and install and hope that there is not problems. My two babies in the house has never given me problems but I build my own systems and maintain them. ty
sheebe