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Whittie
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24th May 10 at 08:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I'm tired of going round to clients houses / businesses and removing virus's manually, following a walkthrough guide off the internet.

What's the best software to use to find virus's, one that updates its database hourly maybe?

Any help would be appreciated.
ed
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24th May 10 at 12:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

F-Secure sits in the background and does a good job of keeping tabs without raping your system resources.
jamied
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Ive always found AVG to be ok but on older pcs can slow them down a little. deffo stay away from Norton & mcafee , be safer to leave the virus on there
Whittie
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24th May 10 at 13:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

AVG, Mcafee, Norton etc are all shit. Good for home use, but shit for finding blatent infections in the system.
Aaron
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24th May 10 at 13:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Malwarebytes and Avast is what i generally use to remove shit from people computers. TBH, malwarebytes usually gets rid of it all anyway
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25th May 10 at 20:36   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Malware antibytes is a good bit of kit.

Microsoft security essentials has always picked up a lot for me as well
John
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NOD32 and MBAM are what I use in 99% of occasions.

MBAM is a different sort of product from antivirus programs, they both catch things the other doesn't.
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I used NOD32, Malware Antibytes (disabled 99% of the time) and Regrun as well as CCleaner on startup to remove dodgy registry keys, and reg run has a list of allowed start up software you define, so if a virus is trying to start at start up it stops it from running and deletes it
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26th May 10 at 08:41   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I prefer having no protection and not surfing dodgy sites
Neo
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You arent a big user on torrents/newsgroups are you though Dave If you were then you would install the software
John
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I don't have anything on my home PC, I am a big torrent user, never had a problem.

NOD and MBAM are for other peoples.
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Fair enough John, lately I have been having a problem with unwise_.exe, seems to be in almost every working keygen I find (I dl some very random stuff), so thats why I have regrun so it doesnt matter if its in the gen or not.
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I have a dodgy as fuck Windows 7 RC cracked Virtual Machine for anything like that... but no, i barely download anything!
Whittie
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I havn't got anything on my home pc / laptop... Get pissed off at the fact they delete keygens automatically
jamied
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26th May 10 at 12:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by John
I don't have anything on my home PC, I am a big torrent user, never had a problem.



same, common sense and been careful what I run. Open all keygens etc in vmware
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26th May 10 at 12:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I'm thinking of taking a malware removal course when I finish uni for summer, it's all online and could be pretty useful imo.

[Edited on 26-05-2010 by ashleh]
John
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26th May 10 at 13:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

They do a course on malware removal

Do you have access to google?
Whittie
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26th May 10 at 13:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Only be worth it if you get some sort of certificatation imo.

Still a good thing to go on, especially if you're not familiar how to remove them / not the type to sit and learn on your own.
ashleh
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quote:
Originally posted by John
They do a course on malware removal

Do you have access to google?


Apparantly so, I usually depend on google to sort stuff out. What if internet is disabled or certain programs are disabled, it's a case of using another laptop/computer to sort something out. I'd rather be able to do it off top of my head lol.

 
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