dealmaster00 said:if u want a really fast response try this:

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it may not be as accurate as a human but better than nothing!
The reason I do not add these type of sites to the Spyware Help Guide is most security
forums do not advise using these yet.

These HiJackTHis analysers do miss items and they can show false postives. Plus there are
plenty of parasites which have specific removal routines or that need to be removed in a
specific order or may require specific removal tools.

WinFixer is one of the parasites that requires special removal instructions.

Also, each system is different, so what applies to one system may not work on another system.

For several months now, I've been meaning to update the Spyware Help Guide, but I just have
not really had the time as there has been a lot on my plate right now between home, family
and work. But I do make it a point to check to see what is going on here and in a few other
places.

More tools that should be added are Kaspersky online scan/file submission and trial versions.

The online scan does not clean infections, but it does inform you that you are infected. You have to download the trial version to remove them.

The online file submission allows you to submit a suspicious file and Kasperksy scans it on their server and tells you if it is infected and provides the name of the virus.

I scanned my neighbor's heavily infected PC with AVG (installed), Trend (online), A2 (trial, installed) and Kasperksy (trial, installed) in that order and each found infected files after the previous scan said the machine was clean. Surprisingly, Kasperky found 22 infected files in the Windows\\system folder after the machine had already been scanned by three other programs.

I know everyone here recommends and uses AVG, but I checked the cache on my neighbor's PC and his family was not doing any kind of risky surfing and they still got infected with viruses that AVG did not detect when I used it as a tool to clean up existing infections. Granted their PC did not have MS auto updates on and they did not have a firewall and they were not using any AV programs until it was too late, but I have much less confidence in AVG after this experience.