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Good virus scanner

jpr62902

jpr62902

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The office network got assaulted recently by some trojans that made it through our Trend Micro anti virus software (which sux large). Malwarebytes didn't find the little bastards either, so I tried Windows Defender Offline. Great software, and free too!

It works so well because you boot your computer directly from the software (you can download it to burn a cd\dvd or just put it on a flash drive and boot from that). The virus doesn't have a chance to load at startup so it easily falls prey to the scan and wipe.

I recommend the flash drive option, since you should use an updated version of the file to get the latest virus definitions (which change at least weekly).

Anyone else use this program?
 
Sounds good. Reminds me of the old days when I ran Fdisk and would boot to dos with just Fdisk to scan and get rid of viruses. It is a sure fire way to keep the virus from running and loading into the OS.
Another way is to have a backup version of the OS loaded. If you think you have a virus on your primary OS boot from the secondary and run your virus checker from there.
I have not tried the windows defender, I don't care for "Windows" being in the name. Is it a Microsoft product?
 
Doc said:
Sounds good. Reminds me of the old days when I ran Fdisk and would boot to dos with just Fdisk to scan and get rid of viruses. It is a sure fire way to keep the virus from running and loading into the OS.
Another way is to have a backup version of the OS loaded. If you think you have a virus on your primary OS boot from the secondary and run your virus checker from there.
I have not tried the windows defender, I don't care for "Windows" being in the name. Is it a Microsoft product?
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Yup. Linky: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline

This thing even found trojans attached to deleted emails.
 
Jim, since you already run MS products why not use security essentials to stop viruses from coming on the system. It is free and does not hog cpu.
 
muleman said:
Jim, since you already run MS products why not use security essentials to stop viruses from coming on the system. It is free and does not hog cpu.
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Because we listened to our (former) IT consultants.:hammer: Believe me, when I have the time, I'm making the switch!
 
jpr62902 said:
Because we listened to our (former) IT consultants.:hammer: Believe me, when I have the time, I'm making the switch!
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Do it.
After Bill advised me to get it and forget about everything else, my computer remains clean with no problems at all.
It's found things that even SuperAntiSpyware missed.
 
I was a big fan of Security Essentials until a few weeks ago. I set a computer up for a customer and 24 hours later it had a virus on it. Thinking they did something goofy, I cleaned it and sent it back. Then a couple of weeks ago we got a pretty nasty virus on our desktop computer. I spent tons of time trying to get the stupid thing straightened up. Nothing would touch it - Security Essentials wouldn't even load up. AVG, Malwarebytes, Spyware Hunter, nothing would touch it. Finally kept going and think I got it, but computer still seems strange. Ended up going back to AVG for right now. It seems to be doing OK for now. At some point I will probably do a format and start over. Not sure if I will do Win 7 again or wait until October and just put Windows 8 on it. Haven't had a chance to play with Windows 8 yet and really need to.
 
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