Which virus/spyware scanners?

[Ike]

Avast! or AVG (free) or NOD (pay)
plus
Spybot
plus
GMER
plus
An occasional HiJack This scan and 3rd party
analysis of the results

If all are updated and managed properly, you have
reasonably secure email habits, have carefully set up
your browser, and are the only user of the computer,
you're quite safe.

void.no.spam.com@gmail.com wrote:
> If you wanted to be certain that a Windows computer was not infected
> with any viruses/spyware/trojans/etc, which scanners would you use?

[Poky]

On Thu, 08 May 2008 19:12:56 -0700, Ike <binarydotike@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Avast! or AVG (free) or NOD (pay)
> plus
>Spybot
> plus
>GMER
> plus
>An occasional HiJack This scan and 3rd party
> analysis of the results

I like to do some pre-emptive blocking with Spywareblaster and the
Hosts file from mvpshosts. Also, use noscript and adblock in Firefox.
I have Spybot and use it to scan on occasion but with pre-emptive
blocking it never finds any adware or such.

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