Trojan question...is he lying or telling the truth?

[arbonnechick]

A week ago, I found a bunch of visits to porn sites and dating sites on my fiance's history file on his computer (not the drop down address history, the history folder). All of these visits were under "sites visited last week".
He immediately denied it, and took his computer in to get it looked at.

Today, this is the explanation he had for me regarding how those porn/dating sites came to be in his history.

"I got the computer back today. He said it had several remote access trojans which not only gave several users access to my files but enabled them to send spam emails from my computer ( which apparently they did, after he checked my sent list) may have reconfigured some settings and to use my computer to go to the sites in question. There were also a couple keylogging viruses which allowed then to record any keystrokes made.

Programs could be run in the background in a separate window which would not show up on screen but at the bottom as a minimized bar. I don't use multiple screens, so this was news to me.

There was also a virus to turn on and off a webcam without me knowing it but since I don't have one, that was not a problem.
He wiped everything and reinstalled Windows XP as a fix."

Is this even remotely plausible?
I want to believe him, but if you guys say that this explanation is a load of garbage....

Please help.

[bookworm]

Originally Posted by arbonnechick

A week ago, I found a bunch of visits to porn sites and dating sites on my fiance's history file on his computer (not the drop down address history, the history folder). All of these visits were under "sites visited last week".
He immediately denied it, and took his computer in to get it looked at.

Today, this is the explanation he had for me regarding how those porn/dating sites came to be in his history.

"I got the computer back today. He said it had several remote access trojans which not only gave several users access to my files but enabled them to send spam emails from my computer ( which apparently they did, after he checked my sent list) may have reconfigured some settings and to use my computer to go to the sites in question. There were also a couple keylogging viruses which allowed then to record any keystrokes made.

Programs could be run in the background in a separate window which would not show up on screen but at the bottom as a minimized bar. I don't use multiple screens, so this was news to me.

There was also a virus to turn on and off a webcam without me knowing it but since I don't have one, that was not a problem.
He wiped everything and reinstalled Windows XP as a fix."

Is this even remotely plausible?
I want to believe him, but if you guys say that this explanation is a load of garbage....

Please help.

As the term implies, it gets into your system without you being aware of it,and takes control, look here for a more indepth explanation.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/Trojan_horse.html

I would also check whether your security is sufficent to prevent this happening again, it may be your history that has the problem next time.

Hope this helps