I have been using and recommending CounterSpy for quite some time. In my opinion, it is the best anti-spyware program available, and it is very reasonably priced. You can try it free for two weeks. Then, if you want to keep it, just pay $19.95 for the first year and $9.95 per year after that. Spyware is a bigger problem than viruses now, so I would not be without it.
And now - CounterSpy version 2 is available! It is faster than the previous version. Probably has some other improvements as well, but the speed is the biggest thing for me.
If you already use CounterSpy, you can upgrade to the new version for free. Just click here and download it, then install it.
If you do not yet have CounterSpy, give it a try. It will probably find all kinds of bad stuff on your computer that should not be there. Just click here to download it, then install it.
UPDATE: Sunbelt Software, the maker of CounterSpy, has just issued this notice: Definitions 497 (released Friday evening) includes a file trace that is causing an unusual type of false detection for Trojan.Gromozon. I'm characterizing this detection as "unusual," because nothing is being removed. In effect, you're seeing a "phantom" detection on a non-existent file that's being caused by an unusual interaction between a file trace in our database and a little-known aspect of the Windows file system (DOS reserved file names). Windows is telling CounterSpy that the file is on the drive when in fact it isn't.
Put very simply: the file isn't there, the Trojan.Gromozon isn't there, and your boxes are not at risk. This will be corrected in the next update to CounterSpy's definitions.
So, the point is...just update CounterSpy and the problem is solved.
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