Antivirus Help:

Antivirus Help:

I was impressed by the thorough approach of this web page, as well as the mention of a few tiny programs which I was unfamiliar with.

http://www.selectrealsecurity.com/malware-removal-guide#preparation

Perhaps as an expert , your opinion may differ , but it looks useful to me.
This may be a good page to download for future reference if your internet goes down due to malware, but not much help if you are presented with other non-booting problems or bsod, etc...

The TDSS killer got me out of hot water recently.
I use Malware bytes but was unfamiliar with Hitman pro. [no install ]
TDSSKiller and HitmanPro are portable programs

Maybe having some of the freeware bootdisks is a good idea too, but many people will not have one.

It seems to me that I manage to make my windows sp 3 polluted and unstable even with care and a little knowlege every 2 or 3 years. A very tedious re-install of windows with a week's worth of fiddling becomes the best answer.

Why do I have to fiddle?  I run a few things off my lmb menu [context menu] like filenote, descrip.tion , archiver, openexpert, and Malwarebytes, Spyware Terminator, and the MSFT antivirus. In addition I have some tools installed to make the handling of mp3 files easier.  http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html

For a few years I did not run a front end antivirus of any sort, but that was a very long time ago.  

It is becoming more clear that Apple & Un*x is the way to go, which many have figured out already.

A Contribution From Miles with thanks:

from: TinyApps.Org miles@tinyapps.org

http://tinyapps.org/blog/

http://tinyapps.org/ 

Here are a two more:

http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/skirmish-1-rouge-security-software.html
http://www.techgeekandmore.com/2011/04/03/pc-cleanup-malware-virus/

These two tools are especially powerful, and have succeeded in
resolving thorny post-malware issues:

http://tinyapps.org/blog/windows/201204160700_post_malware_problems.html

This is especially eye-opening:

http://techlogon.com/2012/03/23/how-windows-gets-infected-by-malware/

In my work, I've seen basically the same pattern, though Java is
by far the most common culprit. The best antimalware advice of
all is this (from an actual botnet operator):

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/

"Pro tip against driveby infections (the ones in the browsers): 
Disable addons in your browser and only activate the ones you need. 
Chromium and Chrome for example let you disable all additional content like flash, html5, pdf and java in the options, you will see a grey box instead of the content and can manually run it using right-click -> Run. Chrome options -> Content options -> Plug-Ins -> Disable all or Click-to-play. 
Chrome also allows you to whitelist sites you trust, like youtube. This will make you immune to driveby infections regardless of the version of your java or adobe reader, because you will only be able to click and run content, that is VISIBLE on the site. 
Malicious content is ALWAYS hidden in a 0pixel iframe! This also stops the nasty flash advertisements implying you can't aim precise enough to win an iPad3."