Reply #3: Spybot and HijackThis

[Peachhead22]

Like the link the previous poster mentioned, Spybot S&D is a great little program. Use it along with Ad-Aware. Each program will catch what the other didn't.

However, I've had situations where I knew I had something, but neither Spybot S&D and AdAware caught and removed it.

I suggest you first try Spybot S&D, but if you still think you've got something the try HijackThis. It's at http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/. But after you've ran HijackThis you need to post the results to the Tom Coyote forums (registration required unfortunately)-or another similar forum- and get their help. If you just start checking off stuff that HijackThis finds you can do damage unless you're sure what you're doing. HijackThis list everything, good and bad, then you have to manually remove the bad.