Thats rather rude
At the very least you will need to run it through a good virus scanner.

If he is useless enough to not be able to surf cleanly he will be useless enough to expose your laptop to risk.

Try this link for a quick check

vil.nai.com/VIL/stinger/

Also download,install and run this. then once you have downloaded and run it, run it once a week.

www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?cdlPid=10844457

that will check for the most common stuff circulating at the moment.

Its not a substitute for a proper up to date full virus/trojan scan though.


And YES, please do tell him that his behaviour was out of order. He has put your data at risk, and if he was a gentleman would take remedial action by purchasing a nice new copy of a good anti virus package for you.

If he had spent the night in your spare bed and you had found balled up sticky toilet paper under the bed next to a few choice magazines the next morning after he had gone, I bet you would have had something to say to him. This is little different.
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Sun 27 Jul 2008, 13:15, Reply)