SpywareBlaster (free) It is the ONLY program I know that will block ActiveX
and establish a Kill-Bit against those items which are recognized by their
CLSID's.
SpywareBlaster version 1.3 (just came out last night)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbupdate.html
Tutorial for SpywareBlaster
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtutorial=49
Be sure to *enable all protection* Simply installing and doing the
subsequent update process is not all that must be done. You must *enable*
the new detections to be fully covered. That command "button" is on the GUI.
To update without doing so is a waste of time. Also, SpywareBlaster removes
nothing, it simply prevents certain ActiveX which may be present from
running, both in your machine, and pre-emptively. It will not clean any
malware either. It is only for machines which are already clean, or have
been cleaned by other programs designed with that purpose in mind.
Now, if you want to *buy* a program. Then DiamondCS TDS-3; relatively
expensive, $50.00 USD. Will not update until you purchase it, a time limited
"shareware" item. Very good, but a very big program. Some people *hate* the
GUI.
http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/
TrojanHunter 3.9
http://www.trojanhunter.com/
Less bulky than TDS-3. Time limited (30 day) shareware, will not automatic
update till purchased (may be manually updated however. You must place the
updates into the proper directory by hand) Also ~ $50.00 USD IIRC.
If you use what I call time-bomb programs which are set to become
non-working after a pre-determined period, I recommend you know how to clean
your Registry well (manually). Any program which is a "time-bomb" leaves all
kinds of registry entries; and they can be in relatively large number as
well. Eventually.....you are going to have to clean that out, before the
System.dat and User.dat are bloated beyond use. This can possibly lead to
the inability to do a Scanreg /fix if that were ever necessary. This caution
/recommendation applies to any and all time limited programs.
You can also use a program such as Total Uninstall (or one which performs
the same function) to help with that, but even so, there are still some
things which must be attended to manually, such as shared dlls, ocx, some
obscured files (usually in the CLSID section it seems) and other files.
HTH -
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