Appendix 1. Some helpful URLs: Free programs and further information.
Note that any opinions and recommendations in the links below are not
necessarily those of the majority of this newsgroup.


Crash courses for beginners, good reference sites for everyone:

http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
http://www.claymania.com/nav-map.html
http://windowsdefender.com/
http://k75s.home.att.net/tips.html
http://shplink.com/misc/paranoia.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/arc.../10salaws.mspx
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html

Virus Removal Instructions:
http://maxpro4u.freehostingnow.com/removal.html
Keeping Windows Clean:
http://maxpro4u.freehostingnow.com/keepingclean.html
Tools:
http://maxpro4u.freehostingnow.com/tools.html

Sponge's Site:
http://www.geocities.com/yosponge/
Sponge's site is full of good information for beginners and advanced
users alike.

a-Squared:
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/antidialer/
on-demand scanning.

ewido anti-spyware and anti-malware solutions:
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

SUPERAntiSpyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/

Comodo Free Tools:
http://www.comodogroup.com/products/free_products.html

Secunia Software Inspector:
http://secunia.com/software_inspector

Castlecops online antivirus/antitrojan scanners:
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Online_antivirus_scans

Kerio:
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html

Zone Alarm:
http://www.zonelabs.com
Zone Alarm is a firewall popular among beginners.

Outpost Firewall:
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/#

Proxomitron:
http://www.imilly.com/tools.htm
Free web proxy server.

Proximodo:
http://proximodo.sourceforge.net/
An open source re-implementation of the Proxomitron.

Privoxy:
http://www.privoxy.org/

Same as the Proxomitron, but also runs on Linux
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-osx.html
Tor/Privoxy bundle for the mac OS X.

Bastille:
http://www.bastille-linux.org/
One of the most popular firewalls ("Hardening Program") for most
"flavors" of Linux.

GreaseMonkey:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
This is browser specific and runs as an extension for Firefox rather
than being an external proxy. However, it accomplishes the same thing as
other Proxy apps, ie. re-writting web pages.

Ad Aware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://lavasoft3.element5.com
Three mirror sites from where you can download Ad-Aware, a spyware
eliminator. Lavasoft (makers of Ad Aware) forum:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com (requires registration)

Spybot Search and Destroy:
http://security.kolla.de/
http://spybot.eon.net.au
Spyware eliminator. SpyBot threats database:
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/in...gebase/threats
(URL may mirror to another, depending a server load at the time)

DNS Kong:
http://www.pyrenean.com/dnsintro.php
DNS lookup redirector

index.dat suite, File Cleaner:
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=P...index.datsuite

A hosts file:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Hijack This!
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html
There's also a link for a great utility that wipes out Kazaa entirely,
which works as well as Hijack This! A note on the latter, use with
caution, it's a bit of a Beta utility. If you use it, post your scan
results log in the newsgroup for us to check out before you take any
further action.

Spywareblaster:
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
Preventive tool.

MRU-blaster:
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/mrublaster.html
Detects and cleans up MRU lists and other "hidden" stored information.

SpywareGuard:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/swguard/
SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against spyware
that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster's protection method. An
anti-virus program scans files before you open them and prevents
execution if a virus is detected - SpywareGuard does the same thing, but
for spyware! And you can easily have an anti-virus program running
alongside SpywareGuard.

Andrew Clover's parasite detection page:
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/
Contains a script that scans for common parasites.

Chris Quirke's Malware page:
http://users.iafrica.com/c/cq/cquirke/malware.htm
A bit out-dated but informative.

CEXX:
http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm
CEXX discussion board:
http://boards.cexx.org/

Mike Healan's Spyware info:
http://www.spywareinfo.com
Spywareinfo Board:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/yabbse/ requires registration

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/index.html
A general Privacy & Security site that is a compilation of links to
third party applications and utilities - use these with caution - post
here if you are uncertain.

http://unwantedlinks.com/

Information about data mining:
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty...datamining.htm


Nice info regarding some known nasties and links to tools:
http://www.imilly.com/

Information on startup/executables:
http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.php
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html


Process Explorer from SysInternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml
Shows which program has a particular file or directory open. It also
shows information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or
loaded.

Faber Toys:
http://www.faberbox.com/fabertoys.asp
Displays a list of all running processes and all modules loaded by the
process.

Spyware Warrior:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
Some Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites

C[rap] Cleaner:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Deletes/manages temporary and other files.

Microsoft's Spyware Research Center:
http://www.spynet.com/


Test how vulnerable your PC is:

Shields up!
http://www.grc.com

http://www.dslreports.com/scan
http://www.blackcode.com/scan/
http://www.auditmypc.com/

ALKEN's Online Security Check:
http://www.alken.nl/online-security-check.htm

DOZLENG's Online Tools:
http://www.dozleng.com/Security/onlinetools.html

Sygate:
http://scan.sygate.com/