I found a trojan and some spyware on the registry of my PC. Would a reinstall restore the registry to when I first bought it? The thing is, I've done that, and the trojan and spyware still shows up in the registry keys when I do a scan.

Everyone and their grandmother has told me that I need to clean and scan my registry and also sweep for spyware on my PC at least a few times a month. Are there any combo programs out there that can do both? I already have a virus scan and firewall program installed.

If not, which programs are the best for Windows XP? Also, I'm on dial-up so I can't really download programs that are too big. Just thought I'd point that out before someone posted a link to a 15-30MB spyware cleaner. 😉

My biggest concern is, I'm wary letting a program dig into my computer, I have no way of knowing if it's going to imbed spyware or virus or something on my system, or steal my information. I see pop-ups for cleaners all the time, but they don't come off as legitimate.

I have an Acer Aspire One that runs Windows XP, and I would like to know if anyone knows of a really good virus protection/removal program that protects against all of the viruses and spyware and junk. I would prefer something that I can purchase in a store instaid of off the internet. Thank You!

my windows explorer has been messed up 4 two days now, and i think it's a virus, but i have used so much anti virus scanner, it still dosnt work……. I have spyware doc and it says a malicous file is trying to get in explorer.exe or something…… when trying to get to control panel through task manager…. and im just wondering about a software to repair this..