I was looking for a certain post from some months ago, and with this new blog (thanks again Google!) it's easy to find the old stuff. On March 9 of this year I blogged on Securing Your PC with my recommendations for FREE software you can use for this purpose.
I did this because I was reading the latest Windows Secrets newsletter, and saw an article that explained how to get rid of a particularly vicious piece of malware. The following 3 paragraphs are taken directly from this newsletter and they read:
"As Peter discovered, if you try to remove the Advanced Virus Remover, you find that your access to Task Manager and the Registry Editor (Regedit) are blocked, making removal of this malware harder than normal. But there are several approaches to rid your system of this and similar kinds of malware. Even if you don't encounter this specific Trojan, the same techniques can work whenever a similar problem occurs.
The first and perhaps most-obvious step is to use one or more of the many free malware-removal tools that find and delete this Trojan. From user reviews online, two that do the job are Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and SuperAntiSpyware.
Users of Grisoft's free AVG, a full-on antivirus/anti-malware tool that prevents and disinfects — as opposed to the malware-removal tools and online scanners mentioned above — also report success in banishing the Advanced Virus Remover Trojan. Download your copy of AVG from the Grisoft site."
Well, this makes me feel pretty good, since they are talking about the same tools I have recommended to you. There are, of course, other tools in the basic security toolset I recommend. If you use all of these regularly, you can stay out of trouble, or, if you manage to get into trouble, these same tools will enable you to repair your own system.
See my March 9, 2009 post, Securing Your PC by clicking HERE.
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