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Topic: Excellent malware freeware program that I recommend
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted February 13, 2011 09:56 AM
Scott's recent problems with his computer and a horde of rogue viruses that my daughter got two of my three systems into compelled me to seek help. Turns out, my partner, K-man, his wife teaches computer sciences at a nearby university and has been doing IT work for several hospitals and corporations for many years and she directed me to a very easy to download and use freeware program that has caught a number of nefarious trojans and other malware that my high dollar AV firewall program missed.
You can find it at
www.malwarebytes.org
I now have it downloaded to all three of my systems and plan to run it monthly and as needed. If you have a rogue virus that won't allow you to do anything online, it helps to download it to a flash drive and then run it with your computer in safe mode. In fact, it's good idea to save it to a flash drive anyway in the event you need it and a rogue won't even let you get it from the web. I had a rogue on my business netbook that put up a block everytime I tried to kill it, whether that was trying to get a remedy online or to open my AV program and request it to scan the harddrive. Nasty li'l bastards and the ppl that make them need to be de-nutted.
Worked very well, very easy to use, it's free, and comes recommended by an entire room of geeks where she teaches.
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Kokopelli
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posted February 13, 2011 01:34 PM
On Lance's recommendation I went ahead and downloaded the thing. It found 146 issues that needed to be addressed and I have McAfee ($) to prevent such things. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Nothing has gone up in a flash of blue flame yet, so I guess it's a good deal. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Paul Melching
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posted February 13, 2011 01:49 PM
Im pretty sure that its macafee and norton that create those lil bugs...............
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tlbradford
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posted February 13, 2011 03:02 PM
If you guys would quit visiting those R-rated sites you wouldn't catch all of that nasty crap. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I have used that program for a couple of years and it does great. The flash drive is a smart way to go.
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CatTracker
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posted February 15, 2011 08:20 AM
I had an issue about 8 months ago where my internet provider shut us down cause we where hogging bandwidth because of an unknown virus (Norton didn't catch). My ISP (Qwest) suggested to run that one and about three other malware detectors and I haven't had any issues since. Good recommendation, Spybot Search & Destroy is another good one!
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DEL GUE
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posted February 15, 2011 07:02 PM
I use Kaspersky anti-virus and Spybot - Search and Destroy. I went to Kaspersky after I apparently got a terminal virus on one of my computers. So far, Kaspersky has kept me peachy keen. I've used Norton and MacAfee in the past and had one of them installed when my 'puter croaked. At this point, I'm relying on Kaspersky. I was using some other malware detector which failed to keep pop-ups off my 'puter. When I switched to Spybot, it killed the buggers. Only caveat is, with Spybot you have to right-click it and run it as an administrator to get full results.
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Cayotaytalker
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posted February 19, 2011 09:01 AM
cdog911 thanks for the info I my self run malwarebytes and esetnod32.
But if anyone likes go here and take a look around. Download.com and a guy can see what most others use or pick.But if a guy go's down to the bottom of the page a person can find a few other things. There is some stuff out there name of or made by AVG,It's seams to be somthing a lot of guys like to run.
I my self get alot from utube,but you do need to take alot of that crap with a grain of salt.I my self am not so bad with hard ware,I mean a blind monkey can plug crap into a tower.But I,m week on how and why software works. Let's just say if in this reply I would like to make one line in bold dark type or in bold red type I can not do things like that.I can do things that seam to come easy for me like run out board gear in to my tower or computer and get it to work. To tell you guys the truth I wish this predator calling site and all the rest had a slot or fourm so a guy could get a good under standing of how a pc works and what have you. I guess kinda like a little PC how to 101 if you will.
If any of you guys know of any other sites or of any how to books I would bet I,m not the only one who would like to here about them.
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Leonard
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posted February 19, 2011 10:01 AM
Consider a MacBookPro. That's all I have to say....
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csmithers
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posted February 19, 2011 03:38 PM
Malwarebytes is the best! Have been running it for a long time and I also run Ad- Aware and CCleaner for registry problems. CCleaner is also a great tool for checking your start menu, where most bugs reside.
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Cdog911
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posted February 19, 2011 04:42 PM
I use that one, too, smithers and yes, it is good. But, you have to re-log in at every site where your information is saved each time you run it.
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Leonard
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posted February 19, 2011 07:04 PM
<yawn>
Apple uses an open code software. The problem is that Microsoft is a poor operating system with a lot of vulnerabilities. Okay, Windows 7 addresses many of their problems but they still get viruses. I heard that they already had a virus the day after it was released.
But, hey, keep on keeping on. LB
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posted February 21, 2011 07:31 PM
I've used malwarebytes and ccleaner for a long time now. They are great programs.
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Rich
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posted February 22, 2011 10:35 AM
Leonard,
Don't a man need to know DOS language in order to run a Mac?
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Greenside
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posted February 22, 2011 11:38 AM
Some of you might want to look into downloading rkill onto a flash drive and keeping it handy in case you get "backdoored" by a malicious worm or trojan type virus. Basically what is does is shuts down registry functions allowing you to run your malware and antivirus programs without them being blocked by the virus. Very handy little tool. There are 3 different rkill exe files that need to be downloaded and potentially used in case one of them would bet blocked by the virus. Saved my ass a couple of times. Google rkill or bleepingcomputer and read up on it .
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Leonard
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posted February 22, 2011 11:47 AM
No, Rich. If that were the case, having forgotten any DOS I ever knew, I'd be sucking.
The thing about Apple is it's similar but different enough that those that are very comfortable with PC are more uncomfortable with the Mac than are those that know no other system.
It is not easy for me. There are simple things I don't know how to do, yet. I paid for personal instruction, what they call "One to One" for a year. It costs $99 and I have to make an appointment and go to the Apple store and get an hour with a rep that answers all my questions. I have had two sessions and need more but I have been so busy that I have not taken advantage of it like I should.
One thing I found out....but don't know how to do it, is that I can record my session with the instructor on my machine so that I can recall it later. That really helps because I forget half of what they say as soon as I walk out the door. Another thing I can do is request that the instructor take notes of every keystroke he makes, which should also come in handy because I can review it when I get back home.
The Mac has so much to offer but they don't tell you how to use it, so the $99 is well spent, in my opinion. I also bought a 3 year warranty for $350. Nothing is cheap about a Mac. If I didn't get a $400 discount through my son-in-law, I'd have $3,000 wrapped up in this lap top by now. He is a software engineer and works for Apple at their campus in Cupertino. He helps me with some issues related to the Board, since I am far from a computer weenie.
Anyway, I'm sure you can buy a laptop for $600 just about anywhere, but you won't get the features and quality that you get with a Mac. I just read an article last night that was about the Coen brothers that said they used Apple app called Final Cut to edit their new movie, True Grit. So, you get some heavy duty shit with a Mac and I assume these guys could use anything, cost not an object.
Anyway, if you buy a Mac, you are getting a very sophisticated machine, more than I need, but I don't have to worry (very much) about viruses, and that's worth a lot to me. Therefore, I don't need all the programs discussed in this thread. And, you need these things because Microsoft is a very flawed system and they refuse to do anything about it because people keep buying their shit.
Good hunting. LB
edited for spelling
[ February 22, 2011, 11:56 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Rich
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posted February 22, 2011 01:34 PM
Leonard,
Thanks for taking the time to explain some of the strengths of a Mac. I already know that if I need a three grand loan, I have a buddy in California that would gladly help me out. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Leonard
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posted February 22, 2011 02:00 PM
Kool! He must not be like me, no job, retired, with a fixed income? A very modest income, I might add. I should be clipping coupons. But, if you are serious, I might be able to get you a small discount. He has a very limited number of purchases (annually) for friends and family, and he runs out of fairly fast, there is so much neat shit available. It's only like 15%, but any discount, at all on Apple products is scarce as hen's teeth. Maybe I should ask him first, he might not have any left?
Good hunting. LB
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Cdog911
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posted February 22, 2011 02:07 PM
Leonard,
As much as I agree that MAC has few problems with viruses, trojans, and the like, I'm willing to bet that it'll be a neck and neck race in the foreseeable future. I've had this conversation with a lot of techies and weenies and their opinions have been, almost universally, that the bastards that create these malware programs do so almost exclusively in the PC world because of the relative popularity of the system around the world - much the same reason that FireFox remains a bit safer to use than IE, because the programmer writing code wants to infect as many systems as he can and he stands to get better reach with IE because it is more common. With the huge surge that MAC has seen in the past few years, I'm betting those jerks are working overtime to write code to bring those systems down.
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Leonard
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posted February 22, 2011 03:25 PM
Well, I can't intelligently disagree, primarily because I don't know enough about it. The basic premise is however, that Apple has software that is much harder to sabotage, if only due to their open source code? As far as I know, you do not have to download, or purchase anti virus programs for a Mac. I asked about it, at the Apple store during my first One to One session and was told directly, that I don't need one, period. The fact that infecting Macs might seem attractive for assholes now that they have a few more numbers does not seem to me to be a strong reason for not purchasing one?
But, again. This is much like getting inside of the head of a suicide bomber. Why in the hell would they want to kill innocent strangers? Why do these people waste their time creating viruses to infect (potentially) millions of computers? If must be some kind of sexual thing, otherwise, it greatly mystifies me?
Good hunting. LB
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Leonard
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posted February 22, 2011 04:27 PM
reply I got about fifteen minutes ago:
There are anti virus programs for the mac and they do work in that they can fix
known virus'. I haven't used one in years. The typical virus' don't work on
the Mac due to the differences between the system architecture. Windows has a
component that applications can take advantage of to run executables (.exe) and
Mail is the easiest to exploit. Send an exe to someone and when they open the
mail it gets executed and could erase the hard drive, send out all the contacts
in your address book etc. The Mac doesn't allow things like that to happen.
That is not to say that in the future people won't find ways and exploit them,
but the architecture is just different.
corey
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