Standard Utilites Monday, March 7, 2005 at 10:02 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) As a standard I recommend all of these utilites, it sounds like you are doing everthing right with the exception to SpywareBlaster, Firewalls, and suggestions of a NAT enabled router, and cleaner browsers like Mozilla/Firefox and or Opera. Also, quite possibly, alot could stem from bad or rougue products being used, logging onto Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites by Eric L. Howes will let you know what is legit and what is not. FREE Spyware, Maleware, ADware scanner/removers and other utilities AdAware SE Spybot- Search and Destory Spybot - Search and Destroy DSO Exploit Fix 1.3.1 TX a-squared (a²) Micro$oft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) CWShredder CWShredder (Last Merijn Version) 159.1 HijackThis FREE AntiVirus Software AVG AntiVirus Avast! AntiVir Bit Defender Ver.7 FREE Firewall Software Sygate Kerio Personal Firewall/ Limited Edition Zone Alarm OutPost Firewall 1.0 Tiny Personal Firewall Security Scans/Port Scanners ShieldsUp (GRC) Sygate Online Services (SOS) Audit My PC FREE Online AntiVirus/Malware Scanners HouseCall Panda ActiveScan RAV AntiVirus Scan Bit Defender Symantec Security Check TrendMicro-Europe for Firefox Browser support includes all major browsers that support the Java 2 Platform: Microsoft Internet Explorer Netscape (6+) Mozilla (1+) Firefox (all) Opera (7.5+) Operating Systems currently supported are: Microsoft Windows 9x (Me) Microsoft Windows NT Microsoft Windows 2k/XP Linux Solaris FREE AntiVirus/Malware stand alone utilites Stinger FREE Malware/Bad ActiveX/Browser Hijack Prevention and Winsock Fix SpywareBlaster SpywareGaurd MRU Blaster LSP-Fix Winsock XP FREE Browsers safer to use the Internet Explorer Firefox Opera Starting your computer in Safe mode How to Disable System Restore in Windows ME or Windows XP Clean XP install/Reformat Written in response to: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Monday, March 7, 2005 at 9:42 am) Responses to this message: one more thing.... (joe: Monday, March 7, 2005 at 10:36 am) All messages in this thread [show all] I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 9:42 am) Standard Utilites (joe: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 10:02 am) one more thing.... (joe: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 10:36 am) re: one more thing.... (William: Sun, Jun 5, 2005, 7:16 am) re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Falcon: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 11:45 am) re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:41 pm) re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Falcon: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 1:01 pm) re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 4:04 pm) re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Falcon: Sat, Mar 12, 2005, 6:07 am) re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 11:47 am) re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (666: Sat, Mar 12, 2005, 4:22 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum