VeeshanVault

So I finally fell for a fake link and got sent to some website of disputable reputation. I quickly got the hell out of there, but I am of course playing it safe and sterilizing my computer. So far I've run Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware and have only come up with a few dataminers that I removed. I have Norton AV running full-time as well. Any recommendations on anything else I should be running to remove potential keyloggers?

Light your 'puter on fire and throw it out a window. It's the only way to be sure.

Run msconfig and look for any unusual exe's too.

Using Firefox, nothing seems to hurt my system that much anymore (in Vista). I end up clicking on all sorts of crap links while searching for artwork. I don't have anything besides Windows Defender running on Vista and haven't run into any issues.

I guess Firefox's built in protections do the trick for the most part now.

Just never click on an "OK" button that pops up or fake "X" in the upper right hand corner of a pop up window or java scripted window.

The only website that gives me issues is:

http://www.rlslog.net/

Every few visits, my web browser goes nuts, window shrinks, fake pop up tells me I'm infected and to click "OK" to fix the issue. I have to completely close Firefox to get out of the situation as I can't get around the pop up and close the tab. I like the site enough to put up with it although I can't believe he continues to have that on the site as they must lose a bunch of potential visitors because of it.

I absolutely hate any kind of virus app running on my system. Nothing but trouble and a waste of resources.

This site looks like it explains keyloggers and types:

http://www.2-spyware.com/keyloggers-removal

Did you actually click on an executable file? I don't think you'll have a keylogger installed if not.

I didn't, no, but I'm trying to err on the side of caution. Mostly I'm angry at myself for clicking on the link in the first place, I'm normally very diligent about checking them first ><

I'm going to say I'm in the clear now, knock on wood.

Run Super Anti-Spyware... Do a google search it'll pop up.. It's free and I've found it to work better than S&D/AAW...

S&D and AAW won't tell you if you got a rootkit installed. Most of the AV softwae won't detect it either. The only way to really find and remove that crap is a full format or to use a "false" OS program to boot into your machine and look for out of place things that way. I have had the servers at my work get rootkitted a few times. It is a bitch to clean that stuff out.