
It's the longest scan and will also sometimes restart your computer. It normally finds the rest and all of it. #4 TDSSKiller - Normal and quick rootkit scanner. #3 JRT - - It's a basic command prompt tool, it's found things others have not and it made it's way into my tool kit. Normally in a shop, I won't need to use it again. I always enter a fake email for the 30 day trial version. I run this as the second scan, it finds most of the things were searching for. #2 Hitman Pro - - Choose the 32 or 64 bit option. #1 AdwCleaner - - Run this, it's a pretty fast scan that will restart your computer. They are all small programs and live on my flash drive. I run a few different programs depending on what I need. You only need to boot into Safe Mode if there are things you want to avoid from opening at startup.ĭisable your anti virus to make sure no conflicts happen. I prefer a clean boot into Windows NORMAL mode. These are also great steps for those of us that are more computer savvy, because the junk files still accumulate up on our computers even if were extra cautious. These are steps that I've done daily, for many years, while working in computer repair shops. If you have a difference of opinion please keep it civil and don't post (while having a heartattack) to tell me how wrong I am. This is my personal preference on removal or spyware and what I found to work the best.
