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For those who pick up a rootkit or similar nasty that seems to be immune to ordinary anti-virus products I suggest Hitman-Pro.

It is a different kind of anti-malware product that uses a cloud-computing approach. That is to say it uses internet while running.

Hitman-Pro does not inoculate your computer or prevent infections, it only searches for and cleans up infections found. It operates in part by checking suspicious files against its database and the first suspicious but unrecognized file is uploaded for off-line manual analysis and incorporation into the cloud if anything nasty is found.

So let me summarize, HitmanPro is not what you want to use for your everyday anti-virus, it would not do a good job. But it is what you want to use for an infection that seems to be immune to anything else.

It is shareware, free for 30 days trial. That will seem a really good deal if your computer is otherwise screwed. At least to get your safely back on the air while you clean it up.

Isn't that in itself a bit risky? A program that will need to send stuff from your computer to the company that produces it?

You need to trust that company completely, make sure they won't be sending your cacheed bank passwords and card numbers.

That is the definition of Spyware, Adware.......... Once again Marcella you are right....................

I use Spybot Search and Destroy and MalwareBytes and I have zero problems. I use these with Norton Gamer Edition.

Yes it is risky.

The Hitman Pro folks have a good reputation, but yes, in the end that is all you have. They do upload only executables, or so they say.
Yes, you need to trust them. But no, "trust completely" is probably overstating it. Many folks are blissfully unaware of just how risky their computing is already.

As I alluded to, Hitman Pro can cure some really really nasties when nothing else will, but it is not a cure of first resort.

To everyone, you will know you have big problems when clicking on a Google search result frequently takes you to unexpected spam.

spysheriff is always funs.

Spybot S&D worked well, but it's "Teatimer.exe" program that was the heart of the application was raising hell with driver conflicts in my audio workstation. So I turned it off. And forgot to turn it back on... got a nasty trojan. Vipre killed it on installation.