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Virus question

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Can a virus cause slow connection speeds to the good ol' WWW.? Was having problems getting a good connection speed, did a virus scan and found something called Dropper.Inor. Smoked the little bastard and now I can connect at 40+ constantly.
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Dropper.Inor is a trojan horse. It may have opened up a port on your computer through which someone may have established a connection and began stealing information from you or using your computer to participate in a DDOS attack. In either case, it would have slowed your Internet connection down, but you wouldn't have noticed any significant performance decrease on your PC. Do you have a firewall?
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I have kerio personal firewall, AVG, spybot, adaware. I am begining to think the problem lies elsewhere.
Virus is gone, removed in safe mode with system restore off. As per instructions I found somewhere.


thanks :)
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