Hi Mastertech,
I have experienced lately that some spyaudit techs indeed use a minimal combination of programs with a role here for Ad-Aware and the resources that Win XP (Pro) SP2 has aboard, and incremental backups every week (on DVD). There were days that it was fashion to run the shell-program Hitman Pro on customer-machines (80$ per month if out-sourced). But this has been proven to be "overkill" sometimes, and automatic audits are not the thing security-admins like very much. They like to know what happens on their machines, and have a firm grip on them.
That is why an important asap anti-malware forum in the Netherlands backed away from this Hitman Pro program recently. HJT and start-up analyzing in combination with registry analyzing and cache cleaning tools and special malware uninstalling scripts can help in many a case. Patching, keeping software up to date, and in-browser security is the best line of defense, that is called precaution. I like for instance siteadvisor, fileadvisor, browser AV plug-ins, because you could always be one click away from the next malware infection. Webmasters have a lot of room, also in the malicious theater, always be aware, that is the best way, else the repairman is taking it all, which is not bad for his business, but not my first priority.
polonus
polonus