First "NTLDR Is Missing" now "Not Enough Virtual Memory"

It's always a good idea to keep several of a security program type because
no one program is a 100% secure. A TV spot a few weeks back, said that the
most effective spyware program is only 60+% effective.. and as you well
know, no antivirus is completely up to date because new viruses keep popping
up every day... so in real time, you can't keep a computer anywhere close to
a 100% safe, no matter how hard you try... you mostly have to rely on some
common sense and a lot of good luck when browsing the Internet.

And incidentally, in just a matter of days a whole lot of websites are
sending malware cookies, Spybot keeps intercepting them by the dozen in a
matter of minutes, "Fifth Avenue" and "Double Click" are a couple right off
the top but there are plenty more. This is up from zero just about a week
ago. It looks like someone somewhere suddenly opened the door and the net
got saturated with the "malicious cookie plague"...

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"Gerry" escribió en el mensaje
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The curious and maddening thing is I am fanatical about security. I have
SpySweeper as my primary anti-spyware and use AdAware AE weekly as a
backup.
As SpySweeping is expiring, I may be looking at ratings for alternatives.
I
also run SpywareBlaster. I use avast! as my AV but may be switching to
either
Notorn AV 2007 which has gotten new and improved ratings or Kaspersky 6.0
AV.
Just goes to show how something can still sneak past. Well hopefully,
AdAware
and the others can remove these offenders. If not I'll have research the
remaining questionable ones and then find out how to manually remove them.

As the late Roseanne Roseannadana would say; "It's always something!"

Gerry

Well, this just gets curioser and curioser. Hard Drive Mechanic shows that I
now have a 31 MB FAT 16 partition on the hard drive where none existed
before. At this point, I haven't the time to sort through it. As I can access
all that I need from the drive, upon my return, I'll begin the process of
installing Windows XP on the new hard drive.

As foe AV, I've read so many conflicting reports on which has improved or
which has gotten worse that it comes done to personal preference. Obviously,
I have a gap somewhere in my security systems. SpySweeper is supposed the be
one of the standouts but AdAware just about always finds something missed by
that program. But thats why everyone recommends multiple layers.

Well, this should do it for me, unless someone has the key to the whole
situation. I appreciate everyone's input and help.

Gerry