Before you spend any of your hard earned money for a commercial spyware/trojan
removal program, check to make sure it will perform as promised. Unfortunately
there are a loft of bogus programs claiming to remove spyware from your computer,
but are actually adding their own spyware or trojan. Some programs are merely
rip-offs of other legitimate programs. Here is a site that has a wealth of
information about these bad or suspect products,
Rogue/Suspect
Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites.
Due to a major music vendor installing rootkits on computers without the user's
knowledge, it now becomes necessary to check for rootkits on our computers. You can
get a program from Sysinternals called
Rootkit
Revealer. It won't remove the rootkit, but will show you the files. If you are
using Windows 2000 or any version of Windows XP,
Microsoft's
AntiSpyware will remove the rootkit.
CHAD's site for
hijacked
Adware, Spyware and other
unwanted "malware" - and how to remove them
The Parasite Fight Finding,
Removing & Protecting Yourself From Scumware
Spyware and
Hijackers removal tools and information
Virus
and removal tools
Trojans and
scanners, removal tools
Firewalls
Spyware and Hijackers removal tools for download
Spyware Removal Help
Mikes' ABC Security
Articles Mike has written a lot of security related articles for
Linda Johnson's ABC
newsletter. These articles give an in-depth description of the various
security issues.
