[ionustron]

I'm temporarily commending the thread premise to ask for two specific kinds of websites, it's been something I've been meaning to ask for a while now...

You see, tonight I want to believe I had a near miss with a trojan horse. No I wasn't looking up pron, I was actually trying to track down what was apparently a doujin group mp3 arrangement of some vgm that I had heard on youtube. Usually I'm extremely careful about what sites I go to, yet for some reason something in my thought process said, you know, isohunt is pretty okay of an engine, I think torrentreactor is too! I know it wasn't Galbadia as that site never seem'd to give me trouble in the past, and I was on youtube prior.

backing up to google, my browser and pc nearly screech to a halt, and I look at the task manager and find at least 4 executable process I had never seen before EVER trying to initiate. Cut them, ran an avg, windows update, and then another safe mode scan and supposedly cleared some trojan exes and a registry entry marking them (only on the first scan), everything seems to be running okay, but I'm still very paranoid. I know this shit can usually mask itself and I'm running another scan before I go to bed, also since I'm seeing some odd exe process upon loging onto the desktop.

Back years ago you could throw any windows file name into google and get a nice reputable website that would tell you it's exact function or if it's bad news or something, but this is just no longer the case with all the shit advertising/spyware sites out there. Do the old good ones still exist in some fashion or another so that I could bookmark one for future use?

That and a few of the old online virus scanners (Housecall's online scanner, and an old Symantec one) I used to use as a quick second opinion have seemed to have vanished, or are more intrusive than I'd like. Are there some other nice online scanners out there you guys know of or have used and don't try to alter/gut stuff on your machine other than threats?