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01/12/2007 12:56:51 PM · #1 |
My computer is showing the problem of slowdown due to Spyware/Malware.
Are there any FREE softwares that can help to remove the infected files? |
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01/12/2007 01:04:06 PM · #2 |
| Ad Aware is one, also AVG Free. You can google to get to their sights. They work for me. |
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01/12/2007 01:07:10 PM · #3 |
| Another good, free tool is Spybot. The combination of Adaware and Spybot is sometimes mecessary to kill 'em all. |
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01/12/2007 03:34:13 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Another good, free tool is Spybot. The combination of Adaware and Spybot is sometimes mecessary to kill 'em all. |
Completely agree with kirbic. Both AdAware and Spybot will be a big help. |
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01/12/2007 03:41:19 PM · #5 |
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01/12/2007 04:55:32 PM · #6 |
You can also try Antivir, they offer a free version and they update the virus definitions very often.
Message edited by author 2007-01-12 16:56:12. |
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01/13/2007 10:07:57 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by reztips:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Another good, free tool is Spybot. The combination of Adaware and Spybot is sometimes mecessary to kill 'em all. |
Completely agree with kirbic. Both AdAware and Spybot will be a big help. |
Can someone tell me the link. I am unable to find out. |
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01/13/2007 10:24:36 AM · #8 |
i read a review on spybot last night that didn't rate it very good at all. from PCmagazine i think.
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01/13/2007 10:37:58 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by kbhatia1967:
Originally posted by reztips:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Another good, free tool is Spybot. The combination of Adaware and Spybot is sometimes mecessary to kill 'em all. |
Completely agree with kirbic. Both AdAware and Spybot will be a big help. |
Can someone tell me the link. I am unable to find out. |
Agree.
Go to Download.com and search for them.
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01/13/2007 11:18:42 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by soup:
i read a review on spybot last night that didn't rate it very good at all. from PCmagazine i think. |
I cant count the number of PC's that I have fixed problems with Spybot. I'd recommend SPybot and AVG. I build and repair about 100 pc's a year as a small business and each of these goes on every PC that I build or repair.
MattO
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01/13/2007 11:28:00 AM · #11 |
hitman pro
when I still had a pc, I used this one. work great. the only thing is that it takes some time before it's finished, but you'll go thrue lots of software to get all spyware. |
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01/13/2007 11:45:07 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by soup:
i read a review on spybot last night that didn't rate it very good at all. from PCmagazine i think. |
FWIW, I introduced the IT folks at a former employer to Spybot in 2002. They still use it as one of their primary tools. They have to contend with a lot of sales guys' laptops that are often connected on unsecured home and hotel broadband connections. They love it. |
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01/13/2007 11:54:07 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Another good, free tool is Spybot. The combination of Adaware and Spybot is sometimes mecessary to kill 'em all. |
These really work! And combined with Trend-Micro Anti-Virus Protection, you will achieve a great comfort level with your computers.
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01/13/2007 12:42:40 PM · #14 |
If you are dealing with this in a corporate environement (that is to say, someone else's money can be thrown at the problem), persuade your local pointy hat to fund a CSA deployment. Cisco Secure Agent is the single best defense against -all- undesired activity occuring on your machine.
No, I don't work for Cisco. |
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01/13/2007 03:17:26 PM · #15 |
here is the review i read. how do you know how well it works if you don't know what it's not catching?>
spybot review
i also downloaded and tried spyware doctor ( $29.95 to purchase ) - in a small test i ran on this incredibly slow to move app - i went to a couple warez sites while the thing was scanning. it picked up a bunch of ads - and one trojan horse in my temp-internet directory. IE7 warned me not to go to the above mentioned warez sites, but i did anyway. i deleted my internet files and scanned again. spyware doctor didn't pick up anything.
i think a problem with a lot of these adware,spyware and free AV things is they try to make every little thing seem like a big security risk. in fact most are probably nothing, but the search brings up a list of 30 things and people are like wholly shit, my PC is filthy - this app works great !
i installed one once, and scanned with it. then downloaded another and scanned with that. the second app considered the first to be a trojan horse...
maybe it's just me...
Message edited by author 2007-01-13 15:24:19.
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01/13/2007 04:56:22 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Another good, free tool is Spybot. The combination of Adaware and Spybot is sometimes mecessary to kill 'em all. |
I was running both and had the paid version of Zonealarm installed, and then ran the Windows antispyware beta (precursor to Windows Defender). Windows antispyware found one program the other two didn't.
Run as many as you can find for free.
Note that you also need a firewall and antivirus.
Zonealarm has a free version that IMO is better than the windows firewall. AVG has a free antivirus that is good. |
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01/13/2007 06:10:23 PM · #17 |
well if i had 10gigs of RAM and a 16gig CPU i would definately do so.
the fact windows picked up something the FREE versions didn't should tell you something...
Originally posted by hankk:
I was running both and had the paid version of Zonealarm installed, and then ran the Windows antispyware beta (precursor to Windows Defender). Windows antispyware found one program the other two didn't.
Run as many as you can find for free.
Note that you also need a firewall and antivirus.
Zonealarm has a free version that IMO is better than the windows firewall. AVG has a free antivirus that is good. |
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01/13/2007 06:31:17 PM · #18 |
If you're running Spybot and have the Spybot Resident program turned on, it will ask for your confirmation before any program can make changes to the registry. If you watch what you allow, no malware or adware can install itself without making a registry change.
If you know you're not installing anything, nothing should be trying to access the registry.
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01/13/2007 07:25:39 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
... If you know you're not installing anything, nothing should be trying to access the registry. |
The registry is a central part of windows, used by windows and applications to store setting and global variables during operation. It is always being accessed.
The programs that monitor the registry are just looking for uses that meet certain signatures. The same way they are monitoring applications for signatures known to be associated with spyware/malware.
Most (if not all) spyware/malware protection programs include monitoring the registry as a part of the spyware/malware signatures they use. If the protection program requires human input to decide if there is a problem, it is running at a level of suspicion higher than it is capable of making decisions. Depending on the user, that is not a bad thing -- but it does require the user to know what the system should be doing and know when it is doing what it shouldn't. Simple rules like the one I quoted above (which I'm assuming came from the software) don't really help without a much higher degree of background knowledge than most users have.
For the level of protection this program is attempting to simulate it is best to create a user profile (login) that isn't able to run installation program. Use it to run all application and for daily use, but login as administrator when installing applications or system maintainance needs done.
BTW: using the registry is optional for all programs. No program is required to register itself with Windows when installed -- although there are certain thing that require it.
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01/14/2007 10:19:01 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by soup:
well if i had 10gigs of RAM and a 16gig CPU i would definately do so.
the fact windows picked up something the FREE versions didn't should tell you something...
Originally posted by hankk:
I was running both and had the paid version of Zonealarm installed, and then ran the Windows antispyware beta (precursor to Windows Defender). Windows antispyware found one program the other two didn't.
Run as many as you can find for free.
Note that you also need a firewall and antivirus.
Zonealarm has a free version that IMO is better than the windows firewall. AVG has a free antivirus that is good. |
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At the time, the windows program was free. And Zonealarm was the paid version.
I was using a 3/4GB 2.24GHz pentium, and it wasn't too much of a burden. Addaware doesn't run till you tell it to, and Spybot's resident program only checks for registry changes.
The key is that there's a lot of different types of spyware, and the anti-spyware vendors don't share their secrets, so you have to run a couple different kinds of anti-spyware to make sure you get them all. |
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01/14/2007 10:55:43 AM · #21 |
well here's my secret.
partition your drive into three or four partitions. it's easy using FDISK from the command prompt. or the winXP install will allow you to. only use the C: drive for the application installations. store the installation EXE's on one of the other partitions if they are downloaded apps. store all data on one of the other partitions. backup on a regualr basis anything that is important. including address books, and favorite settings... etc.
i backup to a slave drive that isn't connected most of the time as well as to DVD. really super important stuff also goes to my webserver into a non-web accessible directory.
once or twice a year - format the c: partition, and reinstall only the APPS you find you actually use. on a fast machine with broadband internet it should only take a couple hours of time to get the PC back up and running, and all updates installed.
clean windows are the best kind !
i can say that i haven't had a PC crash since moving to winXP barring one crazy incident that involved a friend of mine in a drunken stuper going download insane via peer-to-peer connection. the fix - format C: and start over...
if anyone would care to tell me how to stop domain spoofing though i'd be all ears ;}
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Message edited by author 2007-01-14 11:02:47.
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