Re: Do I have TOO MANY antivirus, antispyware, etc

From: "nursing major needs help" <nursingmajorneedshelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| I used to be internet-free. Now I have been on-line for a little over a year
| and I never had any anti-anything. My computer started getting retarted and I
| downloaded and installed the EZ anti-everything offered with my ISP. It
| seemed to only slow things down and didn't protect me from the Win32/sober
| something-or-another that sent me like 300 e-mails a day. So I went to the
| store and bought Norton Anti-virus, Webroot's Spy Sweeper, and installed
| Microsoft's Anti-spyware. I got rid of about 30 viruses and a trojan dropper
| and some ad stuff. Everything was working fine...for about 3 months. Now my
| computer is retarted again and I ran the Windows Live Safety Center Scan,
| which detected and deleted yet another virus. None of the others found it. I
| am so confused. Please tell me what I am doing wrong or what I should do.
| Thanks!!!


There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.

microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus

If you had asked in an anti virus News Group first you would have been directed to use
Kaspersky or NOD32 where NOD32 is a little lighter on resources than Kaspersky.

You would have NOT been directed to NAV.

In addition, Windows Live Safety Center Scan sucks. It is a Beta and tests show that it has
one of the lowest catch rate of any anti virus in the Industry. You are lucky it caught
what it caught but it is possible that also missed something !

To back up you installed AV application, I suggest the use of the following tool. It
provides the "On Demand" scanners for; McAfee, Sophos, Trend Micro and Kaspersky. None of
which have to pre-exist on the PC.

Receipt of of email laden with viruses will not be stopped by anti virus, it will just
protect you from infection once the signature for that virus is installed. To stop the
receipt of 300 emails created by the Sober worm or other types, use anti spam utilities and
email based rules. Find the common denominator of the email based worm that is deifferent
from normal mail and have the email application spam rule delete the email.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *



--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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