Stefano Ferrante wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing difficulties accessing windows update in the
> last two days or is it a general issue?
>
> I am accessing from Italy and encountering slow downs and subsequent locks.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Stefano
>
>
I had difficulties but i did not know what to tie it in to.

I found a resolution courtesy of google and some insights on this forum
(some of which lead to detecting a pair of (alleged) trojans that seem
to have slipped by Zone Alarms, Ad-aware, S&D (try Trend Micros Homecall)

Plus I identified some errors on my part by not alerting scans to a
multi-platter arrangement so i may have missed what happened on data
drives by focussing on system disk exclusively.

The only other changes I made were to install Google Earth, Firefox 1.5
and google toolbar (Earth & toolbar now ditched)