Panda ActiveScan or
Trendmicro Take nothing for granted, your virus software
will not catch everything so scan your computer on line for free. These
sights are great!
Also try this link
Symantec Security Response then click check for security
risks, it does not clean viruses but at least it tells you if you have
any and if so you can download a tool to remove the virus here
Symantec Security Response - Removal Tool
If your going to delete a virus instead of attempting to clean it
first you may end up deleting an important file and you will not be able
to reboot your computer. Pay attention to what it is your deleting and
make sure it's not an important file such as a system file.
Ad-Aware
Spyware Removal Tool
- It's only to your benefit to try and keep spy ware off your computer,
download and run ad-aware and run it once a week. Don't forget to keep
the reference files updated once a week before scanning.
Spy ware is getting really bad and your going to
need more than on spy ware removal tool to remove all the spy ware on
your computer. In addition to Ad-Aware also run Spybot Search & Destroy, you can download it here
http://beam.to/spybotsd Spybot
well remove additional serious spy ware such as DSO.Exploite.
If you find that you still can not get on the internet
after verifying that your hardware is working 100% properly you need to fix your Winsock.
Download the tool from here
WinsockFix,
it work with all 98, 2000 and XP products. If this does not work you
have no choice but to reinstall your OS from scratch. This is one
utility you should always have on a floppy disk at all times.
Windows Update
-
Now that you have Windows XP, it's very
important that you have the latest critical updates available to try and
stay protected from hackers and viruses.
PC Pitstop
- Need to know how fast your internet connection is or if it's working
properly. The PC Pitstop will do all that and more from upload and
download tests to ping and trace route tests. It's only one way for
gamers to be happy.
A little tip: Be careful as to what you download
off the internet. Should you decide to download anything don't try to
.EXE anything at all. First save it to a special folder you created and
highlight that folder with your right mouse button and tell it to scan
for viruses depending on what virus scan your using at least than you
can't say you didn't try to protect yourself. And never, ever install
two virus scans on your computer.