I have seen three systems this month with AntispywareXP-2008 and one with Virtualmonde.
I can't possibly charge enough per hour to make cleaning these viruses off a system worth it for me. Takes several hours, and at some point you just cap the fees.
Please ping back with info on how you have found Avast and Avira to work. I will start carrying both.
Bummer, I really, really liked AVG ...
I just went and checked my AVGv8, and it has the Email Scanner active. I don't have it stripping any attachments, as I get quite a few, but it does check them as I did have one quarantined a couple of weeks ago.
Swordmaker -- where did you hear it went inactive?
The only way to protect ordinary users from malware is to block the sites that provide the downloads. AVG8 does this. Spyware Blaster does this and also blocks ad servers.
These days the focus of malware is to trick you into authorizing the download and installation. The latest one to cause trouble disguises itself as a message from your anti-virus program. The real solution is simply not to go to sites that carry this stuff. If that means having a nanny program, then so be it.