Didn't make any sense to me but, he is right I did find it on dslreports on a fourm that someone else posted. The file symids.sys is everywhere people talking about it. So no I doubt it is a virus but, you could of renamed it now saying you did but, man this file smells like fish. Something smells really fishyyy

Hey!

Has anyone here actually downloaded and scanned that zip file? You HAVE got Virus scanners, haven't you?

Janna, don't be put off by this. we're happy to have new members onboard who are eager to help out others. But at the same time, don't be surprised if people get a tad suspicious when someone new shows up and links directly to a file, without indicating the source. That's not good practice, and it would be better to link to the discussion or the download page instead.

Those interested in knowing more about symids.sys (and the Norton IS slowdown in general) could have a look at this discussion for starters:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10380496

and also this page from Symantec:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...&osv=&osv_lvl=

(By the way, no, I have neither downloaded nor checked it myself. I neither have Norton IS, nor an Internet slowdown. And I wasn't one of those doing the complaining! )

Thanks Catweazle

I was starting to think I was the only one with a virus checker on here. I thought I would just upload the file here and save people the time of having to "click here and then there", but I learned my lesson.