I got a new computer last month as a present from my parents. They also installed me DSL Internet connection. Then a good friend installed me Torrent software for movie downloading. At the beginning, everything worked fine. Since yesterday, my Internet connection is slow and my Spybot gives me an error message. Do I maybe have a virus?
You are probably infected with some sort of Downloader or Trojan virus. Its job is to aloud access to hard drive content on your computer to its owner. Those types of viruses are common on the Internet. Spybot is probably damaged with that virus and that is why it gives an error message. I had to reinstall my OS twice because of torrent using. That was at the beginning. However, from my personal experience I found out what to use for protection. The protection that I have been using for last six months is combination of AVG and Seagate firewall and I don't have any problems. Use AVG to clean all viruses from your computer and then, install Seagate Personal firewall.