Ok, what Ive used on it so far in terms of anti spyware, and anti virus/trojan:
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ad-aware
ewido
spybot s&d
spysweeper
spyhunter
trojanhunter
trojanremover
ccleaner
superantispyware
fprot
a-squared anti-malware
anti vir pe
norton av
xoftspy
ms defender
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all these above came back nothing found. also used these projrams:
hijackthis
autoruns
winsock xp fix
these ran only things that hijack & autoruns picked up were the stuff from dell and norton av, and a few other misc programs that I had bought with run on startup. I ran winsock xp fix, it rebooted machine, but didnt fix problem.
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also visited
www.grc.com went through several tests and according to that site my pc is its wet dreams come true. posted exact outputs of each test from that site below:
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file sharing tab results
Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.
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common ports tab results
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet