SkinniePost
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Post by SkinniePost on Nov 2, 2009 8:05:30 GMT -5
Another free antivirus and spyware removal tool I use Frank... Is TrendMicro Housecall, it is an online scan... so not as effective as a program that is on your computer, but it is always up to date and does both spyware and virus removal. The good thing about it is that it doesn't run as a background process. This is good for folks who ask a lot of their computer, i.e. intense video games that require a lot of memory, etc...
Curious what you think Frank...
The Postman
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Post by etk1131 on Nov 2, 2009 9:09:52 GMT -5
Best malware removal tool I've been using lately is MalwareBytes (www.malwarebytes.org). It's just a free scanner, much like Ad-Aware, so nothing runs resident unless you're actually doing a scan. Cleaned many a machine here at work with it. Just another option.
AVG and Avast are both good free antivirus programs as well. I use AVG on my home PC and it runs pretty smoothly.
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SkinniePost
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Post by SkinniePost on Nov 2, 2009 11:13:50 GMT -5
Agree with Frank that it can be a catch-22, but it is not as big a problem as it used to be... Back in the day most virus, etc. were design to break your computer and make it a brick... nowadays, most viruses and spyware, etc. want your computer to still function, so they can either use it as a spam server, or to collect info... therefore an online scanner tends to work fine, not fool proof, but nothing is... Just stay away from shady sites or possibly suffer the consequences...
Great article Frank, you the man...
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