I will be trojan hunting tomorrow at my nieces house - Does anyone have any good suggestions on software to have on a cd before I get there ?

So far, I think I will get swat it, mcafees stinger, pandas quick remover, and ad aware and spybot as well as a windows 98 boot disk.

Any other suggestions?

That should take care of it.

can't forget to add firefox 0.9.2 on the list as well as flash, shockwave , quicktime, and real player, and adobe acrobat reader

And a copy of sun's java

If your niece is having a hard time with trojans, I'd vote for the short list of Knoppix or Damn Small Linux.

You might also want updated Java from Sun.

Adding a firewall to the list as well as most trojans disable those

Also avg needs redownloaded

I just tried to download Swatit and it gives me a form mail error.

They moved the swatit stuff to www.swatit.org away from lockdown corp.

I just tried it again and now it works.

Adding the cleaner to my list of downloads
http://www.moosoft.com/products/cleaner/download/

For the trojans

Well their computer was so fubared that I ended up using the recovery cds I made when they first got the computer to format the whole thing and restore it to like new condition

Seems one of them took some sort of purity test and dont want to fess up as the virus was something like puritytest.vbs and I could not keep the data that was there.

I told them not to screw with that stuff and if it happens again instead of trying to save the data for 4-5 hours I will pull out the recovery cds and reformat that thing again until they start thinking

Sometimes it's good to have a clean slate.

Are they going to be running AVG, Spybot, and Adaware? Those sort of things?

Well my nieces got another virus last night so this time I will definately install firefox as last time I had to leave early. I got my cd packed with service pack 1 as well as the autopatcher program, so updating it should be easier Lucky i took time to download that stuff after I formatted it the first time