If you think you might be infected, or want to be sure you are not, post here

Read the 6 "pinned" posts at the top of the forum first.

As for keeping infections out, the main protections are:

1. Your firewall. Test its effectiveness here

2. An up-to-date virus scanner, and run regular scans.

3. Malware blockers. Nothing catches it all but SpywareBlaster is good, as is the 
"immunise" function in Spybot Search & Destroy. If you feel like spending a little 
money you can get real-time protection through SuperAntispyware too.

4. Malware scanners. Again nothing catches it all, so scan regularly with 2 or 3 
of the free ones - AdAware, Spybot, SuperAntispyware for instance.

5. If you are paranoid, run a rootkit scanner - Sophos have a free one here

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