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| I've already scanned it with Regseeker and Registrar Lite from
| Resplendence.com (who has some nice stuff). Regseeker picked up 34
| instances and Registrar Lite found another 20 or so. I also just did a
| Regedit search, and the registry was clean (from this one, at least).
| Now onto Multi-AV, a-squared, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Windows Defender (it it
| really worth it?), Regclean, and Avast.


You can leave out; Ad-Aware, Spybot, Windows Defender, Regclean, and Avast.


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| I'm beginning to wonder about Mcafee's Site Advisor. There are some
| questionable sites that they say is clean, yet they have a warning about
| Resplendence.com, who makes some good registry cleaners.
|
| Do the scanners in Multi-AV also clean the system (look for all instances
| where the virus or trojan may be) once it finds a bug, or do I have to
| research everything it finds?


Yes. That's why it isn't always giood to use a surrogate PC to scan a hard disk.
(that is removing the hard disk from the affected PC and plaing it in another PC and having
that PC scan it)


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| I remember reading here once that the Kaspersky scanner left marks on
| every file it found, and a tool was needed to remove the Kaspersky
| extensions.


I haerd that too. I think it was version 5.


| I'm surprised that there hasn't been more participation in this thread.
| This was the first place I thought of posting the problem since it's
| easier to post to newsgroups, and it's open to all readers of forums such
| as Wilders Security, Castle Cops, etc.


It's Sunday night. Friday and Sunday nights are usually quite.


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| The WWW is beginning to make the old wild, wild, west look tame by
| comparison! Why can't Microsoft, with all their programmers, have a
| department that collects all info about rootkits, trojans, spyware, etc,
| and issue a daily, or twice weekly updated program - even if it has a 100
| mg signature file, that deeply cleans every aspect of the registry, and
| once it finds something, has a lookup table of what exe or dll files it's
| associated with? I wouldn't care if the program took 4 hours to run, as
| long as it guaranteed a clean registry, with no strange services running.

Yepper. The landscape of the Internet is full of pitfalls and dangers waiting for the
unsuspecting user and is getting worse.


|
| I wonder if I'll be safer now with Firefox?
|


Moderately, yes.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm