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To: goldstategop; All

Help for viruses and malware:

Ad-Aware ... Spybot ... Peper Uninstaller ... HijackThis... CWShredder ... Spyware Blaster ... IE Spyad ... Free online Virus scan ... AVG AntiVirus ... LSPfix ... How to Show Hidden Files ... How to boot into Safe Mode ... How did I get infected in the first place?

Things you need--(all FREE)
Anti-Virus
AVG Anti-Virus version 7 (free) release available...

Avast
Firewall
Kerio(Direct Download) Zone Alarm

If are using zone alarm it may slow your PC. Try Outpost Firewall http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost or Sygate Firewall http://www.sygate.com/, both have FREE and Pro versions and are heads above ZA.
Misc.
IE Spyads SpywareBlaster Spyware Guard
Windows Update- you must keep updated, it is the start of a secure system-
get all CRITICAL Updates

Things you want(Still Free)

I use Firefox PR1 and IMHO, beats the sox off MS Explorer. Life is good with tabs. Click the link and give it a try.

Ad-Aware
Spybot S&D

SpywareBlaster
MS MVP Hosts file

Mike Lin's Homepage and get the Startup Control Panel and Startup Monitor tools.

The best forum for malware removal:

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?s=262d844129208feb8b0cf5b0186a32f6&act=SC&c=4
SWI Forums--

7 posted on 11/26/2004 12:05:06 PM PST by backhoe ("We met at Dawn- and destiny Prevailed...")

9 posted on 11/26/2004 12:08:07 PM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)

Great stuff. Thanks, backhoe.

Your CWShredder link is no longer valid. They were bought by InterMute, and Version 2.0 is freeware, now available here:

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/17/10-17-150.shtml

27 posted on 11/26/2004 1:02:09 PM PST by glock rocks (You're on, Bo... which is it... turkey or Atta Boy?)

Thanks for all the great links. BTW your sygate link has a glitch.

31 posted on 11/26/2004 1:06:33 PM PST by raybbr

Ping to me (another all night computer tune-up)

32 posted on 11/26/2004 1:07:46 PM PST by TexasTransplant (When you are over the hill, you pick up speed)

To: backhoe; All

add to that list of spyware cleaners

Giant Antispyware
http://www.download.com/GIANT-AntiSpyware/3000-8022_4-10340291.html

have seen several pcs this week with "TVMedia", "180 Solutions" and "Network Terrorist" spyware that altho said 'cleaned' by Ad-Aware and Spybot, atill this Giant found more entires...

free to try for 15 days.

I think it is a good one.

39 posted on 11/26/2004 1:19:53 PM PST by bitt (Thanks be.)

A few security utilities:

Drive cloning without ghostly bloatware: xxcopy

Network information: Netmon

Disk cleanup: BCWipe

59 posted on 11/26/2004 1:59:51 PM PST by kitchen (Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)

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