Free spyware scanning/removal tool?

I suggest you download and install Microsoft's Security Essentials. This is completely free and you have free updates for life. A very good peice of AV software, no bloat and unobtrusive, just how AV should really be.



Also Malwarebytes Antimalware is a great and free to use "Nasty" malware remover. Will get rid of most bad infections. I also recommend Spybot Search & Destroy which will remove more tracking cookies and such.



When removing nasty ingrained viruses for customers, I often use ESET online scanner. When no av is installed or to be trusted.
 
Cheers.

Tried spybot and it found 49 problems. :o

Giving malwarebytes a go now.

Is ad-aware any good? I remember it used to be one of the best. No idea if it's still considered good though.
 
I would say as of now msse and malwarebytes seems the best combo, it's the only two I use just do a scan now and then with malwarebyes on top of msse being active at all times.
 
Combofix is good at what it does, but it should only be used as a last resort. It has a risk of borking your install. I've used it when I had too, but I treat it as the 'big guns' and would never start with it.

Malwarebytes is always my first port of call, spybot used to be but I rarely use it now for anything but the host file mods.

I like MSE a lot, I'll admit I didn't think it would be up to much but it has in fact removed stuff that I couldn't get shifted any other way. It is pretty fast at scanning, and light on ram usage too which is nice.
 
Crowort said:
I like MSE a lot, I'll admit I didn't think it would be up to much but it has in fact removed stuff that I couldn't get shifted any other way. It is pretty fast at scanning, and light on ram usage too which is nice.
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When I installed this it told me to uninstall my antivirus software first. So is MSE also a competant antivirus too? I was previously using Avast5.
 
Crowort said:
Combofix is good at what it does, but it should only be used as a last resort. It has a risk of borking your install. I've used it when I had too, but I treat it as the 'big guns' and would never start with it.

Malwarebytes is always my first port of call, spybot used to be but I rarely use it now for anything but the host file mods.

I like MSE a lot, I'll admit I didn't think it would be up to much but it has in fact removed stuff that I couldn't get shifted any other way. It is pretty fast at scanning, and light on ram usage too which is nice.
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+ 1 well said
 
I'm quite happy to run a quick scan with Malwarebytes, then a scan with Spybot Search & Destroy. However, if Malwarebytes finds quite a lot of nasties, then I always run a full scan to be 100% sure!
 
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