Anyone who says Shadow's clients downloaded from his site have spyware needs to get off the computer because you obviously don't know jack shit. Here, try this. If you still have your copy of BT, and think it is infected and/or if you don't have it anymore, download it again from the main page. Then go to these sites. All of these are reputable online scanners. All of them will scan for viruses, and some of them will scan for trojans and spyware. Remember, just scan what you downloaded. Don't actually install them. The unpackers from these scanners will be able to pick out any malware within them.
***NOTE*** some of these will use an ActiveX installer to run the web based scan. If you do not want to do this, only use numbers 1 and 2. They allow you to upload a single file to their server to test. Numbers 3 - 8 require you to use their ActiveX installer to run.***
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http://virusscan.jotti.dhs.org/ this one actually scans with multiple different engines so it is VERY comprehensive.
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http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html Kaspersky was included in the first link, but I will list it's own site anyway. Kaspersky is one of the best scanners out there for not only viruses but also trojans. They now scan for some types of spyware as well. Other companies say they scan for all these things, but Kaspersky is the only one that I have actually seen catch them.
These below require you to install the web based scanner. You will need to have JavaScript and ActiveX enabled in order to use these. I would say remember to turn them back off afterwards, but the people who were complaining obviously wouldn't know what I was talking about since chances are that they got the malware from clicking yes to install crap from shady porn sites and their ilk anyway. For anyone else who knows about such things, but wind up using these, remember to disable JavaScript and ActiveX afterwards.
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http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp McAfee is often bashed because of incompatibility issues, especially by Norton groupies
. But, McAfee is widely accepted as a very good virus scanner, even by people who don't like their products.
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http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml F-Secure is not very widely known outside of the computer security field, but they are oftentimes the fastest company to respond to new virus outbreaks.
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http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Trend Micro is one of the top 3 antivirus companies.
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http://www.ravantivirus.com/ RAV was recently bought by Microsoft, and have one of the most extensive virus databases out there.
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http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/ I personally don't like Panda's AV's. But they do have a decent track record for detection.
8> [url]security.symantec.com/ default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym[/url] And of course, Norton which I personally hate now since they seem to be getting farther away from good scanning and service every year. Just more bloat added with each new product they put out...
Another good site to visit is PC PitStop
http://www.pcpitstop.com/ You should check out their forums since anyone saying they have spyware on their computers needs some lessons for online safety.
After checking the file at those sites, maybe you will finally see that you didn't get the spyware from Shadow's client.