Hello all:

I am extremely new to both computers and security. unfortunately, the web doesnt wait for one to become familiar with things before getting hit... I am running Microsoft XP, and surf the web with Internet Explorer.

I was surfing the web a few days ago, and one of the pages that came up was a trojan. i caught it (i thought) before it got into my comp, and I thought I deleted it. But now my packets out are 10 times my packets in, in my network connection status.

I have AVG, and have run it 3 times, once in safe mode. I have ad aware and spybot, and have run those as well. Finally, I have kerio firewall, and have always had that running.

I checked my Kerio intrusions, and have found several things:

BACKDOOR trojan active trojancow
trojan probe orifice
trojan backdoor construction
DDOS shaft synflood incoming

a bunch of SCAN things, from nmap to webtrends

a plethora of BACKDOOR trojans, from yetanother to Voodoo to portalofdoom.
finally, there were severa attempts to remote activation bind.

in the vast majority of things, the reference URL was www.whitehats.com/info/ID####
the other common reference URL was www.cve.mitre.org
there were several 4 digit numbers used.

Aside from the incoming packet thing, my comp has no problems. I did not have the latest updates from Microsoft, but I have them now.