Detecting Zombies?

I am the only person who uses Linux on the desktop at my place of work.
Naturally, everyone else has XP except for a couple with new machines and
Vista. At any given time half of them are running like they were 286's
from all the malware that they are infested with. So they reload the OS,
over and over.

I have long since stopped working on problem windows machines for clueless
users and have given up on trying to convince anyone that there is a far
better platform to surf from. If someone has a genuine interest in Linux
I will gladly help, but they must make the first move.

So, back to the virus/trojan/zombie problem. How does a person, who is
not a career network administrator, determine if their XP is zombied?
Years ago, I used to play with network protocols and stuff, but haven't
needed it for years. But the average user is never going to learn Snort
or the like. If the problem were on a Linux box, netstat might give an
indication, but with current browsers there are so many connections coming
and going all the time it isn't as simple as just looking at a snapshot of
the current connections.

With Windows what would you use? Bear in mind that there is no network
admin here. (Not me! - not my work assignment - besides, I am temporary
anyhow). Probably, there is no answer for non-techies.

Dan
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