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May 16, 2011 at 12:50am

With your all your other stuff I agree but I don't think Panda AV is a good virus removal tool. I personally use Nod 32 and it is one of the best. My top would be McAfee, Kaspersky and Nod32 and this is not just my personal opinion. I have a lot of friends that are very pleased with Nod32 memory consumption / antivirus protection.

whiskeycat

February 13, 2011 at 8:13am

used to work in a repair shop we found Malwarebytes to be the best, next is SuperantiSpyware.

then follow that up with an antivirus and that will pretty much clean everything. But all the products they list here are really good and we have used them except for the registry cleaner listed here, I haven't heard about this one. Also CCleaner has a built-in Registry cleaner which I feel safe in using.

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January 06, 2011 at 7:56am

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owenmunger

November 11, 2010 at 6:33am

Thanks for the advice for cleaning my computer, malware and spyware is brutally persistant.  I can't get away from the stuff, but I want to protect myself and my identity from thieves.  In today's society, it's crazy how different dangers we need to protects ourselves from.  Identity thief is growing in America and one way to protect yourself is mobile document shredding .

dezingg

January 30, 2010 at 5:31pm

No wonder Comodo recommends that you perform a back up before you use it.

It cleaned all my icons off the desktop except the "recycle bin" and "my computer". Okay, no big deal I had too many icons on the desktop anyway.

But then I discover that most of my start menu links are missing too, even the system tools ones. Well, I probably had too many start menu links too, but I didn't relish rebuilding all the links.

In fact I decided to use system restore to go back 7 days. Big surprise, system restore no longer restores! I've tried several restore points.  It goes through the motions and after the automatic reboot, it admits that no changes were made to the system. This is a really big deal to me. Messing with the system restore data should be a big no no.

All of my files and documents are backed up. But not the applications or logon scripts that I've been using the last couple of months. I had to reload Firefox and Thunderbird, so their defaults and settings have already been lost.

I don't remember changing any of Comodo's defaults. The missing apps bothers me, but losing system restore really makes me mad. Now I wonder if the option to reload the fresh from the factory image has been corrupted too?

Revo Uninstaller took care of Comodo for me.

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luvdr25

November 18, 2009 at 9:25pm

Very nice very basic tutorial on how to remove most wimpy malware... However you might want to break out the big guns in cases where Rootkits have molested your system. I always start with a malwarebytes scan (quick scan) then remove anything that shows up and reboot the PC. Next GMER (checks for rootkits) www.gmer.net. Will check for rootkits on startup of the program. If GMER finds any rootkits it will warn you, just right click and disable them (they will appear in red), reboot, then open GMER again and delete them. If GMER doesnt do the trick RootRepeal (http://rootrepeal.googlepages.com/) is your best friend but can also be your worst enemy. Pay attention to what you remove using this utility. OH and something they forgot to mention... If you find that Malwarebytes or any other program wont start there is a simple trick to get them working. Go to the program files folder or wherever the main .exe file is and rename it explorer. The virus will think its explorer and wont block it from running. Once you get all the baddies removed, Run a full scan using your Virus Scanner of choice and remove any files that show up. Rootkits can be very tricky to detect and remove. A few of the most common ones are TDSS and UAC rootkits. Once you kill the main file using GMER you can remove the windows files by opening an administrative cmd window and simply typing in del tdss* /a/s and or del uac* /a/s.

Good luck and happy virus and malware hunting!

One Luv!

PhoneyVirus

September 04, 2009 at 8:12pm

I just make a UBCD and scan my PC that way no slowing down your PC with AV's now for Malware you should scan every day.

jlhiatt

July 18, 2009 at 2:55pm

I agree, for the most part, that a clean reinstall is a good idea if your computer is heavily infected.  It really depends on the nature of the infection, though.  I recently had CyberDefender (a rogue anti-spyware program) on my PC and I decided the best thing to do was a clean reinstall of Windows Vista, update the drivers, install all Windows Updates, etc. not to mention the software that was installed.  Took me a few days, too.

It is also worth noting that the nature of malware is such that it will often prevent LEGITIMATE programs from detecting the malware, let alone removing it.  Also, much malware blocks you from going to security-related websites.  In my instance, NOTHING would detect the presence of CyberDefender and trying to uninstall it using Revo Uninstaller was ineffective because the registry entries and so on are still there.  I also had the iSearch toolbar on my computer once and nothing would detect it.

If your issue is related to toolbars/adware, you should download HijackThis! from Trend Micro.  It is really for advanced users, though.  But it will create a log file of processes and registry entries.  You just have to be careful which entries you delete because the Trend Micro product won't inform you which are legitimate and which are the result of the infection.

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (updated monthly) is a good tool but it won't remove adware.

Spybot Search & Destroy used to be highly recommended but I have found it to be an inferior product.  Your best bets are Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Super Anti-Spyware, and the other tools I mentioned.  AdAware is also declining in popularity and may actually conflict with other similar programs installed on your PC.

Finally, you might want to consider installing some of these programs and then burning them to disc and running them from the disc.  That's what I do with Super Anti-Spyware.

Feel free to visit http://fixpcdisasters.blogspot.com for more discussion (I apologize if posting this link is against forum rules.  If so, I won't mention it in the future.  My bad.). 

pyramidfresno

May 08, 2009 at 5:20pm

there is no better way to get rid of junk and viruses than a clean windows installation.  Once a system registry and system files have been altered by adware spyware and viruses you won't find a single app that will get rid of all the junk completelly.

bkreeder100

May 08, 2009 at 3:55am

I do approve of all the effort in trying to help people maintaining there PC Spyware free, But your effort should also include verifying the programs aren't Spyware Installers dressed up as Anti-Spyware.

Case in point I have run many antivirus programs and many have not impressed me in the least. I am not very impressed with Symantic in that it uses too many resources. And it has been disabled by many virus software. McCafee has also been disabled many times by viruses in my time. I am sad to say all of the COTS Antivirus Software I have purchased has been disabled by Viruses in one way or another.

Many Times I have had to rebuild computer systems of friends or family in the years. So I do test many Anti-virus software and Anti Spyware software. 

The Malware Byte's Antimalware program was caught trying to install a trojan on my system, not once during it's scan but twice. I do not take kindly to that type of disinformation about programs. So please test the software using more than one box and more than one anti-virus program. My system uses Avast! which I highly recommend above any COTS Antivirus Program.

I will not test any of the other programs that you list do to what the Malware one did, but the Superanti-spyware seems to work and doesn't seem to raise and alerts from my antivirus so it can live.

Thank You.

 

OvenFresh

April 30, 2009 at 9:29am

Some of these malware/trojan files prevent popular anti-malware programs from running properly. I've seen one case where Malwarebytes would not run unless it's file name was changed. So thats the answer.