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[vinylgeezer]

Recently went back to work in sales for friends small co.
Having probs w/the sales mgr/IT guy.
When I received my new Dell laptop, he insisted on setting it up.
He deleted the Symantec antivirus that came with it, saying he was going to install the corporate version.
I was expecting to see a disk, but instead he used a removable hard drive w/a bunch of folders on it......he tried to get me to go fetch something from across the room because I was looking over his shoulder.
Is it possible he had a tracking program attached to the Symantec Corp or that he needed the other removed to load one? He told me the "corporate prog won't load properly unless the other is removed first"
Also, I brought my home desktop into the office on several occasions prior to this, & it was left unattended while he was there. One day on sales calls, I stopped by the house & logged on to check email, & within 30 seconds my cell rang from him asking where I was.....Are there programs that could send him an IM when I'm online? Remote view files on computers? Download keystroke info?

I appreciate any advice you all can offer...........

[Prm753]

There are a good many programs that can spy on you, aptly called by the term "spyware". If you have not done so already, download Spybot S&D and/or Ad-Aware to your home computer and run scans with them.

[vinylgeezer]

Prm753, on Dec 10 2006, 01:58 PM, said:

There are a good many programs that can spy on you, aptly called by the term "spyware". If you have not done so already, download Spybot S&D and/or Ad-Aware to your home computer and run scans with them.

Thanks, I've done that already.....I was wondering if there is anything else I should do.

[fredvries]

You just could remove your Symantec. See here for some of the problems it can cause with any system.

You can replace it with a free version of AVG.

Finally you should post a HijackThis log here so that someone (read RubbeR DuckY) can check what may be causing your sleepless nights.