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Twayne wrote:
Henk wrote:
Gerry wrote:
Henk

That's good news.

Looking back over the thread you only only mentioned an anti-virus
programmes. You need also to have an anti-spyware programme providing
real time protection. I use Spybot S & D (freeware) for this purpose.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/o...rs1/index.html

For dealing with serious malware infestations:

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
1.36 -freeware (if you upgrade you pay).
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes...-10804572.html

Gerry, the last one is what I used here. I have Adware installed, so
hopefully that will do the trick.

Henk.

In general, it takes more than one spyware scanner to get a reasonable
hit rate on the majority of the possibilities. No single program to
date can discover and eradicate all of them as they each have their own
strengths and weaknesses. Whichever one addresses the most numerous
ones floating around the 'net generally are considered the better ones,
but like anything else, time changes things and next month another
program may well have the limelight.
AMB is decent, as is Spybot S&D, AdaWare, SpywareGuard and a few
others all work well. IME Windows Defender never found anything so I
never even bother with it anymore. I'm sure others will happily provide
the contents of their own arsenals of malware detectors too; there are
actualy quite a few good ones. I no longer use AMB either but I do
still use all the others and a couple more not listed too, if I'm
suspicious I may have picked something up. Fortunately I seldom see any
of that type of crap anymore.

BTW for Adaware, their latest edition in case you aren't using it, seems
to be hitting the sweet spot for a lot of things around here, in my case
at least. It's a case of ymmv though; everyone has a different set of
problems.
IMO one of the best protections schemes is the realtime protection of
WinPatrol. It's worth reading about if nothing else and has a powerful
set of tools in addition. One thing it does is learn every program on
your machine when you install it and should anything else want to run,
it alerts you first and gives you a chance to stop it in case it's
malware or anything that shouldn't be running at that time, so you can
go check it out and see why it was trying to run and what it is. It
also provides lookups for any programs you're not sure of; has a pretty
decent record in its database. Oh, and it's free. No connection with
it; I just like the application that's all.

HTH,

Twayne`




Twayne, thanks for your comments. In fact, I like to thank all who have
contributed to this. Much appriciated.

It appears, there are people wanting to do harm no matter what it takes
and I'm pleased to see that there are people like yourselves who help to
make our lives a bit tolerant with your experience.

Thanks again all.

Henk.