>Separate product, only for viruses/worms. Each security tool does only one type of task.
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>But as the spyware gets nastier all the time, soon it may need to be treated as a virus, even though it doesn't propogate like one - but spyware can still cause plenty of problems. I've cleaned a few machines at work that had so much spyware (including EXEs launching at startup) that the machines basically just stopped functioning, and we had to do OS reinstalls in a few really bad cases, the spyware was so pervasive, tangled up all-through the registry and files.
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>But I'm hoping, and expect to see someday, an "aggregate security tool" that will handle all of the bad stuff in one single app. I'll buy one!
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>I'm glad you solved your problem, anyway, Michel, I saw that in another post. That was a different problem than I've seen so far (and knock-on-wood).
I don't know if that will ever happen to have one tool to do it all. But, new positions will be created dedicated to handling those situations. I guess, soon at schools, those will be given as courses and such. I spent a total of 4 hours to clean it up. I hope I'll be ok for a while.