Battle Spyware with Sysinternals Tools
Slow news day
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Surfing the Internet is a dangerous proposition these days with all of the browser vulnerabilities that pop up every month, along with the sites trying to exploit them. But you're a smart cookie, you secure your browser, have a virus scanner running, are using popup blockers, and scan your system with a spyware cleaner periodically. However, despite the most diligent efforts, something snuck through and now your system is bogged down with all sorts of junk processes you don't want running. And who knows if any of it is spying on your keystrokes and sending vital information like your credit card number across the Internet?
When it comes to scrubbing a system, you want to be as thorough as possible, and to do that you need some pretty powerful tools. To help you out, the folks at Coding Horror have thrown together a detailed guide on how to free your machine of spyware using the Sysinternals suite of power tools. This article and the software linked should become a standard part of your PC repair kit.
Reply #2 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:38 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:02 PM
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thanks for posting that man that was indeed a good read
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:12 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:59 PM
These tools are more useful than even I can comprehend and I have been using them a very long time with much success. Just wish they still included the source code as many improvements in their utilities have been introduced since when they had been open source 
Don't know if any of you remember that Sony rootkit fiasco, but Mark at Sysinternals had a detailed article up about it before I was even aware of the issue, showing exactly what was happening through use of his utilities.
His blog (lots of useful info): http://blogs.technet.com/MarkRussinovich/
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:14 PM
Hey, did you know that Desktop X Builder doesn't have a Company Name on the process? Neither does Winamp. Very interesting .... they must be spyware/malware
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Reply #1 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:04 PM