Screen blanking gone after using a load of programs

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After running practically every anti-spyware tool favored here, I finally
cleaned out my registry to an extent.

System Mechanic with their small database found:

Keysnatcher
and
Realspymonitor


Spybot found a small ocx file associated with Keysnatch.

Ad-Aware, Trojan Hunter, Bazooka, and A-squared found nada as did most of
the major AV software programs (save for Norton which I haven't used in
years).

Avast did catch a Trojan and move it to the chest. I did a search for
the file and couldn't find it anywhere, but it was an executable which
was in the documents and settings internet temp directory.

This leads me to two conclusions:

If you're going to do any daily autoscans using your AV and spyware
programs, at least set them to scan these two directories:

Documents and Settings
Your Windows OS directory

Correct me if I'm wrong but the above also makes sure your registry is
scanned.

I'm also beginning to think that a once a year reload of your OS and main
programs might be a good idea. If only Microsoft would comply and make
it easy to download all the upgrades to your system disk in one iso file
that can extract to disk.

 

[Art]

After running practically every anti-spyware tool favored here, I finally
cleaned out my registry to an extent.

System Mechanic with their small database found:

Keysnatcher
and
Realspymonitor


Spybot found a small ocx file associated with Keysnatch.

Ad-Aware, Trojan Hunter, Bazooka, and A-squared found nada as did most of
the major AV software programs (save for Norton which I haven't used in
years).

Avast did catch a Trojan and move it to the chest. I did a search for
the file and couldn't find it anywhere, but it was an executable which
was in the documents and settings internet temp directory.

This leads me to two conclusions:

If you're going to do any daily autoscans using your AV and spyware
programs, at least set them to scan these two directories:

Documents and Settings
Your Windows OS directory

Correct me if I'm wrong but the above also makes sure your registry is
scanned.

I'm also beginning to think that a once a year reload of your OS and main
programs might be a good idea. If only Microsoft would comply and make
it easy to download all the upgrades to your system disk in one iso file
that can extract to disk.

Better yet, maintain a clone of your main drive on a removeable drive
so you can simply restore if need be. And learn to not take hits in
the first place. Of course, if you allow others to use your PC, all
your careful "safe hex" goes out the window ... so make sure to
create that clone just in case. That covers your butt for h.d.
failures as well.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

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I have the feeling that if the majority of computer users actually knew
how to run these programs (most don't seem to understand what an exe file
is), and if network administrators would scan their clients daily, a huge
percentage would be found to have some sort of malware on it.

How many people do you think are doing netstat commands or at least
running TCPview?

 

[Al Bundy]

After running practically every anti-spyware tool favored here, I
finally cleaned out my registry to an extent.

System Mechanic with their small database found:

Keysnatcher
and
Realspymonitor


Spybot found a small ocx file associated with Keysnatch.

Ad-Aware, Trojan Hunter, Bazooka, and A-squared found nada as did most
of the major AV software programs (save for Norton which I haven't
used in years).

Avast did catch a Trojan and move it to the chest. I did a search for
the file and couldn't find it anywhere, but it was an executable which
was in the documents and settings internet temp directory.

This leads me to two conclusions:

If you're going to do any daily autoscans using your AV and spyware
programs, at least set them to scan these two directories:

Documents and Settings
Your Windows OS directory

Correct me if I'm wrong but the above also makes sure your registry is
scanned.

I'm also beginning to think that a once a year reload of your OS and
main programs might be a good idea. If only Microsoft would comply
and make it easy to download all the upgrades to your system disk in
one iso file that can extract to disk.

Maybe I missed it in the thread but what did Windows Defender find?
Curious...