Very good. Looks like you have been real busy. In the removal tools I would also list some rootkit remover like Rootkit Revealer - http://technet.microsoft.com/e.....97445.aspx

whs, this is advice that I have given before on this forum, so I wasn't that busy just making it more general and putting into the wiki.

As for a rootkit remover, I'm all for linking to one but this page is about *preventing* infections not cleaning them. Also, I have referenced a page listing free Anti-Spyware, which is a sub-page of all anti-spyware. I would expect to have a page of anti-virus and other cleaners, such as rootkit revealers and removers linked to yet another master page that this new page of mine could link to.

Yes, a page on how to clean infections would be great, but every infection is different and there is no one tool that will clean any kind of infection. Just thinking about how complex those instructions would be reinforces for me how important it is to *prevent* infection in the first place.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

At the IT company I work for, we use spyware doctor, and it does a pretty good job. Ill get a link for it and post it later, cause I dont have one right now, I have it on a fd

Spyware Doctor may be good (although I have never seen it in any serious comparison rating), but on my system it made a real mess. I threw it out.

@Geek, Although I understand the general intent governing this rule, it may not always be practical. If someone asks where to find a cheap PC or a specific bit, how can we answer without pointing them to a commercial link? Difficult!

Hmmm, It's that what it was? I thought "Referral Link" meant a commercial link. Thanks, I again learned something. One is really never too old to learn. I should have done like you would have => Googled the term. lol

That is a good principle. Sorry I confused the issue due to a lack of semantic knowledge of the term.