this program is useful too as it tests your computers ability to handle data streams.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

the link is fine. have you heard of the term *false positive*?

I would not have posted something that was harmful. Nor would the guy that gave it to me(who is a code guy for intel and who happens to be my brother in law)

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Thanks, but as it happened, the link was infected with malware that took my Ad-Aware half an hour to get rid of....

The next time you are hit with malware, try Malware Bytes, available here. This is excellent software, which I have used to cure malware infections on my clients' PCs.

Keld,

I don't think the latency checker contains any malware. Norton Internet Security 2010 pronounced it infection free and I suffered no such ill effects when I ran the program.

As an aside I stopped using Ad-aware because of the number of false positives, its detection rate isn't that great either. F-Secure is good but it still only blocked around 80% of threats (out of 85% detected) in a recent test.

Of course malware is always a game of percentages; no protection is absolute.

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Not long ago the word was that Norton generally sucked, but it seems things change.

It became such a bloated resource hog that unless you were running a very modern fast machine you were screwed.

Norton Intenet Utilities did indeed suck bigtime until the 2009 version which was a major rewrite, in particular addressing the resource consumption issue mentioned above by RG.

It's funny to reflect that a bit of PC weirdness is just part of every day life these days. Only a couple of thousand years ago the sorts of things my PC does on a daily basis would have had people inventing religions to explain!