Thank's to all of the good persons who have replied with good solid
info!
I have seen many references to a spyware removal program called
SPYBOT.
Has anyone reading this used it, and with what success? best, Aaron
Spybot has lost it's luster with me, but it is a good locator of
Internet cookies. I used to like it, but never use it anymore.
I have it installed to help other people that have issues with it, but
it has never found malicious software on my system. It finds only
cookies, but I can find cookies by myself. It is never my first
choice of things I would run when looking for malicious software.
MBAM and SAS are my first choices for free software and seem to have
much better detection mechanisms
If you choose to install Spybot, it may want to install it's TeaTimer
function which is one of the biggest consumers of Virtual Memory I
have ever seen for a background monitoring process. This can be
disabled/enabled at will of course.
Before and after you install it, do this to see what I mean:
Right click the Taskbar, choose to open Task Manager.
Click View, Select Columns, check the box that says:
Virtual Memory Size
Expand the width of the Task Manager box so you can see all the
columns.
Click the VM Size column heading once or twice to sort by VM Size
biggest to smallest, top to bottom.
Who is on top of the VM column?
