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Old 02-16-2007
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Vista malware removal
Is there a utility for removing trojans that will run in Vista 32 Home Premium?

I have found none.

I have a trojan Spydawn and can't remove it. I'm not that tech savvy but I can follow instructions if a manual removal is possible via boot to safe mode and instructions made simple idiots like me for regedit. The trojan has my desktop roped and tied on regular startup.

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Old 07-06-2007
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The only three tools you will ever need:

1: Spybot Search & Destroy (S&D)
2: Adaware
3: AVG


Download, install, run, be safe.



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thanks for the help ; im a nubie
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Spybot is not as comprehensive as it seems......at the moment neither Norton or Spybot can even locate my Trogan
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Re: Vista malware removal
Ad-Aware 2007 - Reviews and free Ad-Aware 2007 downloads at Download.com

here ya go!
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Re: Vista malware removal
I use Adaware and can vouch for it's brilliance.... Free too
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Works like a champ!
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Re: Vista malware removal
One I stumbled across, which covers almost everything, was Advanced Windowscare. I keep an image so dived into the deep end with the defaults set. It has a general cleaning option and a registry cleaning option. Does a really fantastic job. On their own recommendation, I then run Ccleaner, which seems to find a couple of deeper settings. No adware now or anything else. temp files all gone etc.
AVG Free as my antivirus and I am squeaky clean.
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Re: Vista malware removal
The latest AVG (google for it) is now at version '8' and seems better than ever..
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Re: Vista malware removal
Superantispyware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Both are free and excellent scanners
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