hyphenjones
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I was round at a fiends today and she has been having major issues with the speed of her broadband, it's meant to be 8meg but internet frog assesses it as around about 1meg.
We contacted the provider who said that there was no problem with thier end and that the only thing that would cause this is spyware.
I was told to run netstat (utilities>terminal then type netstat) to see how many tcp items there are, roughly seven came up and I was told that these represented spyware and that removing the spyware would free up the speed.
Here's where I'm befuddled, I ran the same test on my own mac at home and a sinilar amount of tcp items came up, although not in the same status. I have had some slowing of my browsing but nothing major.
I didn't think there was any spyware that affected macs so I'm a wee bit worried to find that there might be spyware on my system and would love to know if this is a pile of cack or a real concern.
If it helps my friend is on a 14" iBook G4, I'm a PowerBook G5.
We contacted the provider who said that there was no problem with thier end and that the only thing that would cause this is spyware.
I was told to run netstat (utilities>terminal then type netstat) to see how many tcp items there are, roughly seven came up and I was told that these represented spyware and that removing the spyware would free up the speed.
Here's where I'm befuddled, I ran the same test on my own mac at home and a sinilar amount of tcp items came up, although not in the same status. I have had some slowing of my browsing but nothing major.
I didn't think there was any spyware that affected macs so I'm a wee bit worried to find that there might be spyware on my system and would love to know if this is a pile of cack or a real concern.
If it helps my friend is on a 14" iBook G4, I'm a PowerBook G5.