The (bad) April Fool's scare caused by the widely spread Conficker variety of malware has been followed by a spring to life by the Conficker worm, according to security firm Trend Micro. The firm has tracked Conficker updates to infected machines over the past few days, hinting that the authors are trying to cash in on their global botnet. Rather than instruct the worm to cause global chaos, ... [ read the full article ]
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SuperAntiSpyware or Malwayrebytes Antimalware are good choices too.
Just be careful when using Malwareybytes software, as it has a habit of deleting system files, particularly the userinit.exe file, which allows you to login to Windows (your system will startup and then immediately logout if it is deleted/not found).
This can be fixed easily by copying the userinit.exe file from another Windows XP system into your Windows\System32 directory.
Quote:Just be careful when using Malwareybytes software, as it has a habit of deleting system files
That's not the definition of a "good choice."
Yeah, but... sometimes Windows system files do become infected or are replaced with malware.
Every AV product is known for having false positives (McAfee Enterprise had issues with previous versions of SpySweeper for example, deleting a necessary SS dll file.) Malwarebytes actually removes alot more junk; usually most people won't bother with crap like conficker and just format their machine, sometimes when it's unnecessary.
