Trojan removal

[Colonel Blip]

What is a preferred freeware application for trojan search and removal on a
w2k system?

 

[Conor]

What is a preferred freeware application for trojan search and removal on a
w2k system?

Spybot Search and Destroy (www.safer-networking.org) , Lavasoft Adaware
(www.lavasoftusa.com), Spysweeper. First two are free.

 

[John Corliss]

What is a preferred freeware application for trojan search and removal on a
w2k system?

You might want to look at "a² personal":

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/

 

[John Corliss]

Spybot Search and Destroy (www.safer-networking.org) , Lavasoft Adaware
(www.lavasoftusa.com), Spysweeper. First two are free.

Since the OP clearly asked for freeware and the name of this group is
"alt.comp.freeware", why recommend a program that isn't freeware?
However according to their page, Spysweeper is a "free download." You
have to pay for the updates though.

 

[Rod]

Since the OP clearly asked for freeware and the name of this group is
"alt.comp.freeware", why recommend a program that isn't freeware?
However according to their page, Spysweeper is a "free download." You
have to pay for the updates though.

It's a free trial download, it stops to work after the trial period ends.

Rod

 

[Colonel Blip]

Thanks to all.

 

[JoeA]

You might want to look at "a² personal":

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/

There is an a2 free version, but I have not used it.
I am curious about their online service...

http://onlinecheck.emsisoft.com/en/

does this seem strange?
Desktop firewalls must be deactivated for this test!

I'd rather allow someone like PC Pitstop to scan my machine
http://www.pcpitstop.com/
but hey its just my opinion.

 

[Love That Music]

Thanks to the help from this group, I was able to get rid of a nasty
one using AD2. The trick is to turn off your restore, use the AD2,
then re-boot the computer, and turn on the restore again.
AD2, by the way, didn't show that it had found anything, but worked
just the same.
Good luck.
Earl

 

[Chris Walken]

What is a preferred freeware application for trojan search and removal on a
w2k system?

http://www.ewido.net/en/?section=main

 

[Larry Sabo]

What is a preferred freeware application for trojan search and removal on a
w2k system?

If you can access the web, use www.rav.ro\scan (click the link under
the registration box; no need to register). It's an excellent scanner
but you need to remove malware manually, or search for a removal tool,
e.g. at Symantec. They were recently bought out by MS, BTW.

Cheers,
Larry

 

[John Corliss]

It's a free trial download, it stops to work after the trial period ends.

Thanks for the clarification, Rod. I kind of expected that this might
be the case and that's why I put free download in quotes.