Does anyone have any suggestions on the best tools to find and remove spyware, keyloggers and all others of similar nature?
Avast is the best free antivirus tool that I know of -
http://www.avast.comI use it since 2005, never let me down.
You never heard about FUD crypting, right? I could compromise your machine with a password stealer and you'd never know it, till all your money is gone. Avast or any other anti-virus software can't protect you in this case.
I got 2 FREE GOLDEN advices for Windows users:
- USE INTERNET ON A VIRTUAL MACHINE and use host for banking and currency stuff.
- KEEP YOUR SYSTEM UPDATED
- not an advice - I hope noone here is using Win XP, this is just asking for troubles
There are few out there. VM Player (from VMWare) is available for free, VirtualBox is free, but I remember it having I/O slower than VmWare.
There's paid VmWare workstation. There was also Microsoft Virtual PC, now I think it was rebranded to Hyper-V (I think it's available in Win8).
As soon as you're done with "teh internetz", revert virtual machine to initial state. There, that's it.
Most malware this days relies on 0day exploits. Even with VM you shouldn't feel safe, there's always possibility,
that's something's gonna escape from VM to host. (There were bugs in VMware in it's history)
As a last resort: Use your browser inside sandboxie.
PS Don't think FF is secure.
PS2 Don't think Chrome is secure. (I have access to data that suggest there are in-the-wild WORKING exploits for chrome, sorry, cannot share that data).
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