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The past few days when I start my laptop up with XP Pro from hibernation, I get a message that says Application system is trying to establish TPC connection with remote IP address 87.255.33.149 on port :80.
Is this something I should be concerned about?
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The little I could find about that address appears to be a Russian porn site.
Time to scan this machine with all the tools you've read about here.
Bob
I don't have a clue as to how I "stepped" in this pile of garbage. I ran Trojan Hunter, Spybot and the commercial AVG 7.5. They all reported some undesirable garbage which was removed.
So far I not getting the firewall access request that I got at the start of this thread. I hope it's gone as I don't want to do a reformat UNLESS I absolutely have to.
Since I only started getting this message a few days ago, could I have taken care of the problem with a simple System Restore operation back a few weeks or so?
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