Most of today’s Security Software Applications work on the principle of malware signature identification. They depend on the identification of a malware, developing its counter measure, inclusion of its definition in the database, subsequent download of these definitions by the end user and then only the security is provided to the ultimate user.
However, another approach to the malware detection in your computer is to look for the suscpicious processes, services and registry entries and remove them.
There are many tools available, which can detect suscpisious behavious and alert you. Now it is upto you to dig more about suspicious processes and take action.
