about how many files did malwarebytes full scan check? It makes a big difference whether you pick full scan or quick scan
so is security essentials considered the best program of its type? i've beeing using AVG free but i'm not 100% confident in it because it let the annoying search-engine virus take over my laptop, and once it got on the computer no program was able to remove it. i had to do a re-install of everything.
+1 and the other 1% is solved by having a good backup and restore regime. Have not had any anti-crap running for 10 years after getting caught with something that neither McAfee or Norton could find (and not even today). It took dad a MONTH to get rid of it.
I have found Spybot to pretty much useless. Malwarebytes is ok but not that good. One free program I like is SuperAntiSpyware. It consistently finds things the other two miss. I use the free edition but I'm considering upgrading to the full version. http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html Oh! And, McAfee and Norton are also completely useless.
Not neccesarily. My old man travels a lot so he's on all the travel site frequently and his machine is LOADED with garbage. Can't say he's had a keylogger but plenty of trojans and I know for a fact he ain't visiting no porn. He's not computer savvy enough to know how to erase his history.
I like this one: http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Free/3000-2086_4-10407614.html?tag=mncol;lst
How do you know you can trust the writers of Comodo, after all you are giving it a trusted position on your computer it could easily cover its tracks and if it is ex-filtrating data back to comodo owned servers how would you differentiate that from normal traffic? Beyond that how do you know that any code that you haven't personally written doesn't have backdoors or hidden functionality? And even if you wrote it how do you know for sure that the hardware itself doesn't have backdoors. How's that for paranoia?
I suggest using multiple checks: Malwarebytes for malware; SuperAntiSpyware for spyware; and Dr. Web CureIt for viruses. If you get some type of infection that takes over your PC and will not let you update protection programs, etc., then start with Rkill. It is a program that contains a massive list of malicious processes, and this program will kill them so you can download and run protection. Below is a link for Rkill on the bleepingcomputer site. There is no update feature for Rkill, so you need to download it again each time you want to run it so you have the most current version. Download it to a memory stick on another computer if a virus will not let you download it directly. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic308364.html
you get something called wireshark and you take a good look at all regular traffic, including idle traffic if any (there should be no idle traffic going out, only external pings and attacks) PM me if you wanna talk this shit Computer security is truly an Art. It takes insight, wits, and paranoia to make it Computer Security. Not everyone is cut out for it. Average user doesn't stand a chance Take a look how average users on this thread are saying malaware scanner this, scanner that. They haven't a clue. All those norton and other virus scanner people are average users that don't stand a chance. and when you get a guy like me who could talk about built in backdoors to windows OS that needs disabling, they are ready to laugh at me poor schmucks