I did forget to mention CWShredder, I will put that in, meant to in the first place. I didn't link
to *their* forums over at hijackthis because they have too many people posting to ask questions, yours is quickly pushed off the page, especially with all the stickies, and a good amount of the time you're left with no answer. (I tried it a couple times)

And I wasn't talking about scumware in this -- scumware is a different sort of problem (software designed to steal traffic from legit sites, in short) I didn't feel like talking about it here, seemed out of place. Also, keyloggers, an entirely diff. ballgame...I didn't want this tutorial to turn into a couple chapters in a book. I did take a look @ all the major adware/spyware removers and planned on including the *top 4* (but forgot cwshredder!)

Thanks for the feedback -- will rewrite parts of it tomorrow, maybe edit the original when I'm done, should be more of an add on than a change.

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