UK Bob

Thanks again for the help. Will try that right away.

Do I undertand this correctly? Spybot S & D is smart enough to detect the malicious code, then change the reg entry back to what it should be, but not to "destroy" the code once it's resident in memory? (I don't know if the payload is anything other than just changing the reg entry)

Sphinx

I think the important point being missed here is that, as UK Bob pointed out to me in a previous post, all the threats are different - Virus', Trojans, Malware, Spyware, Adware and all the rest. You need different apps to track and elimate them, right?

I believe a lot of the latest Anti-Virus programs or Internet Protection Suites have a lot of these built in. If you're using one of these then of course you wouldn't need separate apps.

In principle, I agree about running too many background apps but I'm happy to sacrifice a bit of performance for some security until an all-in-one package comes along.

Thanks for the help and info.

Trevor