I would start off with Ad-Aware and Spybot, also Spywareblaster will
prevent
many types of malware from even installing.
Sometimes,when you remove malware it will stop your TCP/IP
stack from working (Internet connection).
Winsock or LSP-fix will correct the problem,Download first.
Note to anyone using NOD32 Anti-Virus software,Do Not delete the
"imon.dll" this fix reports,That is your e/mail scanning engine.
YES-You need more than 1 malware program,the one's below are all free
and work well.
LSP-fix-
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Spybot S&D -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
CWS Smart Killer-
http://www.safer-networking.org/minifiles.html
About Buster-
http://www.spychecker.com/program/aboutbuster.html
Ad-Aware SE -
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
CWShredder -
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html
Hijack this -
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html\
Hijacjthis
torial -http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=165
SpywareBlaster -
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard -
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol -
http://winpatrol.com
Win Patrol is NOT a malware program,but it will inform you if anything
writes
to your registry or changes your home/search page,a nice little program.
BHODemon -
http://pcworld.com/downloads/file_download.asp?fid=23611&fileidx=1
Bazooka -http://
www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
asquared2 "Trojan Remover" -
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/
Socklock-
http://nsclean.com/socklock.html
NOD32Anti-Virus Free 30 day trial
http://nod32.com/download/trial.htm
A link for free online virus and trojan scanners.
http://virusall.com/downscan.html
A listing of BHO's
http://www.spywaredata.com/bho.php?current_page=0
To help stop unauthorized downloads via your activex controls change your
default settings.
These settings are good for XP. The wording should be close for other
systems
as well.
Go to control panel and open "internet options.
Click on the security tab then custom level.
make sure these settings are as follows.
Download signed active x controls>set to prompt
Download unsigned active x controls>set to disable
Initialize and script active x controls not marked as safe>set to disable
Run active x controls and pluggins>set to enable
Script active x controls marked safe for scripting>set to enable
Java permissions>set to high
Launching programs and files in a IFRAME" > Prompt
Installation of Desktop items"> Prompt
Navigate sub-frames across different domains>prompt
Recovery Console Password- Do this BEFORE you need it! Like maybe now.
On many XP installations you can't start the Recovery Console because it
won't recognize your password. This registry edit causes the Recovery
Console
not to ask for a password. This works for both XP Home and XP
Professional.
Start | Run | Regedit
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole
Set the DWORD SecurityLevel value to 1
Exit Registry and Reboot
Free Firewalls
ZoneAlarm (Free and up)
http://snipurl.com/6ohg
Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) (Free and up)
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html
Outpost Firewall from Agnitum (Free and up)
http://www.agnitum.com/download/
Sygate Personal Firewall (Free and up)
http://smb.sygate.com/buy/download_buy.htm
NTbackup link
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntbackup.msi
Erunt-
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm
