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Bootable CDs to the Rescue
Some viruses are so bad that they lock you out of your computer’s administrative controls. When that happens, consider using a bootable CD that can clean the hard drive of viruses. This often fixes things enough to let you get into Windows and make further repairs.

AVG Rescue CD
My favorite is the [...]

Gina Trapani wrote up a great article on the infamous Antispyware 2009 and how to get rid of it. This software pretends to be legitimate antivirus software, but is itself a virus. There are many variants of the software and I wrote about one of them called Antivirus XP 2008.
How to Remove XP AntiSpyware by [...]

Microsoft officially released Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) today. It is a free tool to protect your computer from malware, viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans. Unlike the previously released Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), MSE runs all the time and actively searches for threats.
Blurb from Microsoft:

Early tests show MSE to be very effective at catching [...]

Is it time to buy those boxes of ammo and head for the hills? We’ll see.
This Wednesday, April 1st the Conficker worm will do something. No one knows what. But it has security experts up late. It is believed that at one point Conficker was on 6% of the world’s PCs. This has been reduced [...]

SUPERAntiSpyware is very good antispyware that is free for personal use. While Antivirus software is very important, Antispyware can help too in making sure that you aren’t getting hijacked by Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, and Key Loggers.
You can run it whenever you want, not needing to take up resources when you aren’t using [...]