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Thanks, but I have McAfee Security centre running 24/7 with all
updates and a
freash scan every day, and I have tried finding it with webroot spy
sweeper
but no success, what more can I do?
Do a file search to see if it isn't hiding so you can tell in what
path is that file. The path might indicate what program uses it. You
could right-click on the file and look under the Versions tab, if it
has one, to get some info provided the author didn't lie about it.
McAfee's anti-virus is not the end-all malware detector. It is
primarily a virus detector. I've never found SpySweeper to be
effective and too often issues false positives. No one anti-malware
product is sufficient in coverage to ensure that the vast majority of
pests will get detected. You need an overlapped security suite. That
doesn't mean you have them all running; i.e., you don't need their
on-access scanner running all the time. Just use them as an on-demand
scanner.
Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Spybot Search & Destroy
SuperAntispyware
Grisoft AntiSpyware (was called ewido)
Others will probably recommend other anti-malware products, some of
which I won't use, like Spyware Doctor (and definitely not SpyDoctor
which is rogueware; see
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm).
Since you know the file and if you can find it, you could also run
multiple anti-virus scanners against it by submitting it to VirusTotal
(
http://www.virustotal.com/).
