Looking for Freeware Trojan scanner

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Peter Pan

I am looking for a freeware Trojan scanner.

I am running Norton Anti Virus and using Zone Alarm as a fire wall, however
I sometimes get the feeling something is running in the background that
should not be there. I might just be paranoid.

I used a keylogging program at work to keep an eye on my computer if I was
out the office, No scanning by the Network Admin ever picked it up, I could
have set it up to e-mail logs to me when I left the company.

Derek
 
I am looking for a freeware Trojan scanner.
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Sorry unfortunately nothing good exists in the freeware category.

There are some like SWATit but it's bad.

Then there are other programs like ad-aware and spybot S&D which are free
and deal with mainly adware programs,browser hijacks and a very limited
class of trojans and kegloggers.

Ad-aware and Spybot S&D don't really protect you from "real" remote admin
type trojans or most keyloggers.
I am running Norton Anti Virus and using Zone Alarm as a fire wall,
however I sometimes get the feeling something is running in the
background that should not be there. I might just be paranoid.
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You probably are. Make sure you have good physical controls over your
computer and you will be fine.
I used a keylogging program at work to keep an eye on my computer if I
was out the office, No scanning by the Network Admin ever picked it
up, I could have set it up to e-mail logs to me when I left the
company.
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Actually Norton is pretty good in detecting Trojans compared to most
antiviruses. However, many Commerical keyloggers are not detected by most
common anti-virus programs to prevent employees from detecting it with
their Norton etc programs because they have a deal in place, or so I read.

Though there are specialised non-freeware alternatives that are known to be
effective keylogger scanners (and many of them actually come from the
people who make the keyloggers themselves!), none are freeware , some
limited demos only provide detection (pest patrol i think also has a
website for scanning).


Derek
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Aaron
 
Thanks Aaron

I am using Spybot S&D as well, but you know what they say, you can never
have too much protection.

Derek
 
Peter said:
I am looking for a freeware Trojan scanner.

I am running Norton Anti Virus and using Zone Alarm as a fire wall,
however I sometimes get the feeling something is running in the
background that should not be there. I might just be paranoid.

I used a keylogging program at work to keep an eye on my computer if
I was out the office, No scanning by the Network Admin ever picked it
up, I could have set it up to e-mail logs to me when I left the
company.

Derek
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I like double-checking with TrendMicro's Housecall:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com

I've had good luck with it cleaning things that Norton 2003 won't.

-will
 
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