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[irishs2]

If you have one rootkit you may have more, mbalm only recently started detecting rootkits but http://www.gmer.net/ is a more dedicated utility.

[Evilgoat76]

MBAMs rootkit ability isnt great, but if its been seen by MBAM Combofix will have see it. What tents to happen is it gets quarrantined and removed by Combofix and then Malwarebytes finds it in c:\qoobox\ where combofix leaves it.

Theres other steps/bits I havent mentioned for simplicities sake. FYI the way its normally done in the shop is very different but I have the luxury of a fully controlled environment,proxy servers I control and if all else files, another machine to put the drive in.

On Vista a handy little tip is to go into windows features and disable DFS replication service, remote differential compressionand tablet PC services. This can take a while to process but it makes a difference to Vista boxes that are already a little slow.

[dmacdou1]

I'm no expert on this stuff by any means, buy unfortunateley there is no one bit of software that'll catch everything. I usually find if i'm having similar problems the easiest way to sort it is to save all the important stuff(music,photos,etc.), and wipe it!
Sounds extreme but it works, and it has the added advantage of speeding everythign up for a while, so you should probably do it fairly regularly(annualy maybe) anyway.

[Rusty]

Cheers chaps

Where are those options? Can't immediately find the menu to go into.

Just need to get some better anti-XYZ-ware now.

[Evilgoat76]

As dmacdou1 there is no silver bullet.

For some customers our usual combo of MalwareBytes / Avast / Windows firewall is all they have ever needed together with a GOOD router/firewall. Where space allows we normally put dedicated Smoothwall firewalls in.

Keep up to date with all updates especially the Windows update. There are a few important ones buried in the optional update section there too.

There are cases where nothing will work, normally the only recomendation I can offer is to duct tape the households teenager(s) to something solid.

[irishs2]

To the above I would add Firefox with NoScript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722)
and CCleaner, http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Oh and sometimes its the dads that go clicking where they shouldn't

[Evilgoat76]

Oh dont, I've sound some real nasties. Nothing illegal but borderline in dad's private stash. Case I have in mind I showed wifey how to see where the disk space was being used

Only realy issue with Firefox is no 64 bit version, and no plans to make one

[madpugger]

S2Central (Paul) Don't you love it when PC guys feel the need to react so badly!

I love my macs

[S2central.net]

Had various macs since 1991 and never had to deal with any if this anti virus shyte once. Just look at the mumbojumbo pc geek speak mentioned in this thread ... Life is just too short for that
IMHO. OS-X is fundamentally more secure and robust than windoze. There is a whole industry of guys having to patch up viral ridden pc machines and I am convinced that most of the nasty viruses are sourced from the antivirus companies as a continued revenue generation program.

More people drive nissans than audis in the world... Does that make the Nissan better ? No it just proves that most folk are happy to drive around in bland boring **** boxes from a to b where all they care about is if the car has satnav and fourteen feckin cup holders :-)

I don't wanna start a pc vs mac war here as the net is full of them, but I always crack up at discussions like this where people forget what a computer is for as they accept that having to invest all this time in protection is normal - well I suppose it is for pc folk. The rest of us are just happily surfing, creating, emailing, chatting, youtubing and whatever else.

Macs are just as easily upgraded if you know what you are at as well. All bar one of mine has been souped up by me in some way or another.

[Azman]

What are the thoughts on comodo antivirus (which is what I run), Seems to be very active and pick nearly all the stuff up, had it a year and no probs as of yet...

[Evilgoat76]

What are the thoughts on comodo antivirus (which is what I run), Seems to be very active and pick nearly all the stuff up, had it a year and no probs as of yet...

If you can put up with the constant nagging, not an issue.
Comodo started out as a Firewall package, as far as stand-alone firewalls go the only no-no now is Zonealarm. Used to be a pretty good product but it now tends to break things and I have seen stop 0x7e errors (Bricked PC) caused by it after some updates are applied.

The Windows firewall is actually pretty decent beleive it or not and because its tightly tied in to the OS its not as naggy or bloated as the others.

[Laurel]

Had various macs since 1991 and never had to deal with any if this anti virus shyte once.

Really?? So if you own a Mac you don't need any anti-virus software?? You never get any problems???

That is ALMOST enough to convert a stubborn lass like myself to the dark side.

But my pink Sony vaio still has my loyalty.

[newsh]

Has Combofix gone? I can't find it, Bleeping Computer wants me to download StopZilla..

[Nuvo]

You can still grab it from here or here.

[newsh]

Thanks Nuvo, I found it at Cnet Download.com too, will that one be ok, the file size is slightly smaller?